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The Independent (May 19, 2001)
Their Lagoons and Reedbeds Gone, Iraq's Marsh Arabs Have No Refuge
by Robert Fisk
http://www.commondreams.org/views01/0519-02.htm

The New Yorker (November 25, 2002)
No Place to Hide by Jon Lee Anderson
http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/?021125fa_fact1

Pacific Institute for Studies in Development, Environment, and Security (November 2001)
Threats to the World's Freshwater
http://grid2.cr.usgs.gov/publications/freshwater.pdf

NASA (August 2001)
Vanishing Marshes of Mesopotamia
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/
images_topic.php3?img_id=5112&topic=land

Al-Hayat (15 July 2001) (PDF)

Asharq al-Awsat (15 July 2001) (PDF)

Radio Free Europe (15 June 2001)
Iraq: UN Study Shows Ecological Catastrophe
http://www.rferl.org/nca/features/2001/06/15062001123644.asp

Tehran Times (23 May 2001)

Chicago Tribune (22 May 2001)
Iraq is draining away 5,000-year way of life

Sydney Morning Herald (22 May 2001)
Culture of 5,000 years on verge of extinction.

The Age, Melbourne (20 May 2001)
Iraqi Marsh Arabs see lifeblood drain away.

Gulf News (20 May 2001)
Dams, drainage leave Fertile Crescent devastated.

The Times of India (20 May 2001)
Damming, drainage claim marshlands in south Iraq

Agence France-Presse (19 May 2001)
Les marais de Mésopotamie en voie d'assèchement (Word document)

The Boston Globe (19 May 2001)
Fertile Crescent degraded.

Desert News (19 May 2001)
Iraqi wetlands devastated, images show.

The Guardian (19 May 2001)
Marsh Arab civilization disappearing as Iraqi wetlands are drained.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,492986,00.html

The Independent (19 May 2001)
How Saddam has drained the life from his precious wetlands and left a people damned.
http://www.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east-article244969.ece
Robert Fisk: Their lagoons and reedbeds gone, the Marsh Arabs have no refuge.
http://www.independent.co.uk/world/fisk/article244916.ece

The New Scientist (19 May 2001)
Water wars.
Iraqi wetlands face total destruction.
http://newscientist.com/article/mp17022910.300.html

The Seattle Times (19 May 2001)
Draining, dams turn Iraq's marshland into wasteland.

Africa News (18 May 2001)
UN Environment Program Says World's Most Important Wetlands Ruined By Drainage.

CNN (18 May 2001)

Dagbladet Information Webavis - Danish (18 May 2001)
Miljøkatastrofe afsløret i Irak

De Standaard (18 May 2001)
Satellietfoto's tonen drooglegging Iraakse moerassen

Excite News (18 May 2001)
Satellite Images Show Fertile Crescent Devastation

National Geographic (18 May 2001)
Ancient Fertile Crescent Almost Gone, Satellite Images Show
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2001/05/0518_crescent.html

Virtual New York (18 May 2001)
Satellite data shows environmental ruin.

Yahoo Daily News (18 May 2001)
Satellite Images Show Fertile Crescent Devastation
http://forests.org/archive/africa/saimshow.htm

Liberation (17 May 2001)
Répression écologique en Irak

United Nations Wire (17 May 2001)
IRAQ: UNEP Reports Severe Damage In Tigris-Euphrates Delta
http://www.unwire.org/unwire/20010518/14822_story.asp

BBC On-line (Arabic) (16 May 2001)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/arabic/news/newsid_1335000/1335160.stm

BBC On-line (English) (16 May 2001)
Mesopotamia's marshes 'set to vanish.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/1332128.stm

German Press Agency (16 May 2001)
Ecological disaster in Euphrates, Tigris delta (PDF)

David Grunberg (29 April – 16 May 2001)
Trip to Iraq

Washington Post
The Engineer

UN Chronicle (Volume XXXIX Number 2 - 2002)
The Demise of Mesopotamian Marshlands
http://www.un.org/Pubs/chronicle/2002/issue2/0202p44_mesopotamian_marshlands.html

US Dept of State International Information Program
Iraqi Regime’s Assault on the Environment