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USA Today (March 31, 2003)
Dirty Water May Become Iraq's Biggest Killer by Tim Friend
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/iraq/2003-03-31-water-usat_x.htm

BBC News (March 8, 2003)
Iraq's Marsh Arabs battle for survival by David Loyn
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3011447.stm

Corren.Se (March 20, 2003)
Vatmarker i Irak kan räddas (in Swedish)
http://www.corren.se/archive/2003/4/12/1pk6x9sk1i80klv.xml?category=1mr1kip2lve9bv
7&print=yes

National Review Online (March 21, 2003)
Saddam Hussein, Eco-Criminal by Jonathan Adler
http://www.nationalreview.com/adler/adler032103.asp

People and Planet (March 24, 2003)
Iraq's 'Garden of Eden' turning to dust
http://www.peopleandplanet.net/doc.php?id=1910

Christian Science Monitor (March 27, 2003)
Watering Eden by Peter Spotts
http://www.csmonitor.com/2003/0327/p14s01-sten.html

World View Magazine (April 2003)
As the marshes go, will Iraq follow? by David Arnold
http://www.worldviewmagazine.com/issues/article.cfm?id=118&issue=27

BBC News (April 11, 2003)
Wary Marsh Arabs warm to troops by James Fraser Andrews
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/2939267.stm

Talk of the Nation on National Public Radio (April 16, 2003)
Restoring the Marshlands of Iraq: "Eden Again" Seeks to Repair Environmental, Cultural
Catastrophe by Warren Olney
http://discover.npr.org/features/feature.jhtml?wfId=1234520

ABC News (April 20, 2003)
Back to Eden? Group Hopes to Reclaim Saddam-Drained 'Garden of Eden' Marshes by
Melissa McBride and Dave Marash

Science Now (April 29, 2003)
Iraq's Marshes to Get New Life by Naomi Lubick
http://bric.postech.ac.kr/science/97now/03_4now/030429d.html

The Age (April 30, 2003)
Return to Eden: the rush to revive marshes
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/04/29/1051381948369.html

National Geographic News (May 1, 2003)
Iraq's Eden: Reviving the Legendary Marshes by Afshin Molavi
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2003/05/0501_030501_arabmarshes.html

Environmental Data Interactive (May 5, 2003)
Iraq's Garden of Eden Being Restored

Washington File (May 9, 2003)
Natsios says Iraqis Must Have a Say in Marshland Restoration by Jim Fuller

Futura Sciences (May 20 2003)
Le projet "Eden Again" en Irak (in French)

Reuters (May 22, 2003)
Iraq's Marsh Arabs cling to their destroyed world by Andrew Marshall
http://forests.org/articles/reader.asp?linkid=22835

Islam Online (May 22, 2003)
Mesopotamian Marshlands: Going Down the Drain? by Aisha el-Awady
http://www.islamonline.net/English/Science/2003/05/article10.shtml

Asia Times (May 24, 2003)
Glimmer of hope for Iraq's marsh Arabs By Irina Lagunina
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/EE24Ak02.html

Dissident Voice (May 17, 2003)
In Iraq, Water and Oil Do Mix by Leah C. Wells
http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Articles5/Wells_Water-Oil.htm

Los Angeles Weekly (May 23, 2003)
The Poison Triangle: Restoring Iraq's war-ravaged marshes by Joshuah Bearman
http://www.laweekly.com/ink/03/27/features-bearman.php

Planet Ark (May 20, 2003)
Marsh Iraqis Stand Between Their Humble Homes Built Beside the Water in Abu Sholan in Southern Iraq
http://www.planetark.com/envpicstory.cfm/newsid/20892

Philadelphia Inquirer (May 31, 2003)
Hussein made marsh a desert by Mort Rosenblum

Refugees International (June 13, 2003)
Forgotten People: The Marsh Arabs of Iraq by Larry Thompson

Interaction (Refugees International) (June 28, 2003)
Forgotten People: The Marsh Arabs of Iraq by Larry Thompson
http://www.interaction.org/newswire/detail.php?id=1742

Washington Times (June 30, 2003)
U.S. Grapples with Refugee Challenge in Iraq by Betsy Pisik
http://www.washtimes.com/world/20030630-124546-6030r.htm

Oxfam (July 18, 2003)
Iraq Diary: An Oxfam aid worker reports on daily life in Iraq
http://www.oxfam.org.uk/what_we_do/emergencies/country/iraq/diary/diary18july03.htm

Wall Street Journal (July 21, 2003)
A Culture on Our Conscience by Paul Gigot
http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110003775

American Forces Press Service (July 23, 2003)
Wolfowitz Relays Impressions of Soldiers, Civilians in Iraq by Doug Sample
http://www.defenselink.mil/news/Jul2003/n07232003_200307234.html

US Agency for International Development (September 2003)
Strategies for Assisting the Marsh Dwellers and Restoring the Marshlands of Southern
Iraq - Interim Status Report
http://www.env.duke.edu/wetland/iraqreport92003.pdf

Terra Internacionales (July 23, 2003)
Italia destina fondos para recuperar pantanos iraquíes
http://www.terra.com.sv/noticias/internacionales/articulo/html/ame5902.htm

Italian Ministry of the Environment and Territory (July 23, 2003)
Cooperazione Italo-Irachena per la protezione dell'ambiente

International Medical Corps (July 28, 2003)
Thi Qar-Post War Dreams, Miracles, and Opportunities by Tanya Habjouqa
http://www.imc-la.com/fieldnotes/thiQar.html

Sierra Club (August 2003)
International Visitors
http://www.sierraclub.org/international/committee/internationalvisitors/index.asp

KCRW To the Point (August 11 and November 28, 2003)
Restoring Iraq's Fabled Marshes by Warren Olney

U.S. House of Representatives (September 30, 2003)
Lawmakers to Offer American Parity Amendment to War Supplemental by Congressman
Peter DeFazio
http://defazio.house.gov/093003EDRelease.shtml

Geotimes (October 2003)
Water, Agriculture and Land Cover: Lessons for the Postwar Era by Mohamed Sultan,
Richard Becker, Ahmad al-Dousanri, Abdul Nabi Al-Ghadban and Elizabeth Bufano
http://www.geotimes.org/oct03/feature_water.html

New Scientist (October 1, 2003)
Marsh Arabs reclaiming wetlands
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99994217

Washington Post (October 11, 2003)
'A Gift From God' Renews a Village by Rajiv Chandrasekaran
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A10572-2003Oct10?language=printer

Headwaters to the Ocean: SWS Conference (October 23-25, 2003)
Symposium on Restoration of the Mesopotamian Marshlands
http://www.coastalconference.org/program02.htm

Radio Free Europe (November 2003)
Iraq: Reviving Marshland Ecosystem Takes More Than Flooding Drained Areas (Part 2)
by Charles Recknagel

The Engineer (November 2003)
The Marsh Arabs: Ancient way of life being restored
http://www.hq.usace.army.mil/cepa/pubs/nov03/story17.htm

The Engineer (November 2003)
Iraqi Ministry of Water Resources is similar to Corps
http://www.hq.usace.army.mil/cepa/pubs/nov03/story23.htm

GEO World (November 3, 2003)
Restoring Eden: GIS Helps Repair Marshlands in Iraq
by Sam Ali
http://www.geoplace.com/gw/2003/0311/0311cvr.asp

BBC News (November 5, 2003)
New hope for Iraq's Marsh Arabs by Caroline Hawley
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3244571.stm

CBS News (November 6, 2003)
Can Iraq's Marsh Arabs Rebound? by Elizabeth Palmer.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/11/06/eveningnews/main582361.shtml
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http://www.cbsnews.com/htdocs/videoplayer/newVid/framesource2.html?clip=/media/20
03/11/06/video582371.rm&sec=500257&vidId=500257&title=Iraqs$@$Marsh$@$Arabs
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CBS News (November 6, 2003)
Bush Signs $87B War Package by John Roberts
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/09/10/politics/main572499.shtml

Iowa State University (November 12, 2003)
The Marshes of Southern Iraq and the Marsh Arabs: Ecocide and Genocide
by Hamid K. Ahmed
http://www.public.iastate.edu/~mariposa/hamid2.htm

Global Internally Displaced Persons Project (December 2003)
Schools for Marsh Arabs

People in Need (December 1, 2003)
Marsh Arab communities have four new schools reconstructed by PINF
http://www.reliefweb.int/w/rwb.nsf/0/824814cc9d4d479ac1256def0048c94f?OpenDocument

National Public Radio Talk of the Nation (December 25, 2003)
Iraqis returning home: the exile experience
http://www.npr.org/rundowns/rundown.php?prgId=5&prgDate=25-Dec-2003

San Francisco Chronicle (December 28, 2003)
Life Flows to Dying Wetlands: Postwar water aids Iraq's Marsh Arabs by Matthew
Stannard
http://www.mindfully.org/Water/2003/Iraq-Wetland-Restoration28dec03.htm

Discover Vol. 24 No. 9 (September 2003)
Rebuilding Eden by Jocelyn Selin.

BBC News World Edition (August 25, 2003)
Great explorer Thesiger dies. One of the 20th century's greatest explorers, Sir Wilfred Thesiger, dies in hospital aged 93.

Duke News and Communication. (19 August 19, 2003)
Duke Ecologist Finds Devastation, Hope in Iraqi Marshes.

KPCC 89.3 FM AirTalk, Southern California Public Radio. (August 12, 2003)
Restoring the "Garden of Eden" in Iraq

U.S. News & World Report Archive (11 August, 2003)
Can Iraq's vast marshes be brought back to life?

Los Angeles Times (5 August 2003)
Saving What Saddam Destroyed.

The Wall Street Journal Online (21 July 2003)
Commentary: A Culture On Our Conscience. by Paul A. Gigot. WSJ.com - A Culture on Our Conscience

Newsweek. International. (23 June 2003)

Newsweek (23 June 2003)
Fall of Eden. To punish rebels, Saddam Hussein tried to destroy Iraq's southern marshes. Will the country be able to rebuild them in time? by Babak Dehghanpisheh Fall of Eden. Fall Of Eden

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Chicago Tribune (19 June 2003)
Iraqi Nomads Break Saddam's dams, levees to let rivers.

Futura Sciences (19 June 2003)
Le projet "Eden Again" en Irak.
http://futura-sciences.com/decouvrir/d/dossier260-1.php

Earthvision (2 June 2003)
Experts Urge International Cooperation On Rehabilitating Mesopotamian Marshlands.
http://www.earthvision.net/ColdFusion/News_Page1.cfm?NewsID=24868&start=1

The Age (31 May 2003)
Iraq's parched marshlands returning to life.
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/05/30/1054177726752.html

The Philadelphia Inquirer (31 May 2003)
Hussein made marsh a desert.

Edie (30 May 2003)
Iraq's Garden of Eden being restored.

Planet Ark (30 May 2003)
Iraq's dried-out marshlands reviving.
http://www.planetark.org/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/20985/story.htm

ENN (29 May 2003)
Iraq's dried-out marshlands are reviving.

Telegraph.co.uk (29 May 2003)
Life floods back in the wetlands.
http://www.dailytelegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/
news/2003/05/29/wirq329.xml&sSheet=/news/2003/05/29/ixnewstop.html

Reuters (28 May 2003)
Iraq's dried-out marshes reviving.

The Village Voice (21-27 May 2003)
A plan to revisit Iraq’s wetland graveyard Paradise Regained?
http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0321/basu.php

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National Geographic News (18 May 2003)
Ancient Fertile Crescent Almost Gone, Satellite Images Show
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2001/05/0518_crescent.html

CNN (6 May 2003)
U.S. eyes restoring Iraqi marshes.

Planet Ark (6 May 2003)
US wants to restore part of Iraqi marshes
http://www.planetark.org/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/20690/story.htm

Alert Net (5 May 2003)
US wants to restore part of Iraqi marshes

National Geographic News, (1 May 2003)
Iraq's Eden: Reviving the Legendary Marshes
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2003/05/0501_030501_arabmarshes.html

The Charlotte Observer (30 April 2003)
Paradise Lost in Southern Iraq. Many Scholars Say this was the Garden of Eden.

The Age (Australia) (30 April 2003)
Return to Eden: the rush to revive marshes.
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/04/29/1051381948369.html

Science Now (29 April 2003)
Iraq's Marshes to Get New Life

Boston Globe Online. (28 April 2003)
In Ravaged Marshes, Peace Gives Hope

The Washington Post (28 April 2003)
Back to Eden: Restoring the Marshes of Iraq

The World (radio show, co-production of BBC and PRI) (25 April 2003)
Interview with Dr. Suzie Alwash

BBC News (23 April 2003)
Not a drop that’s safe to drink.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/middle_east/2969283.stm

Newhouse News Service (21 April 2003)
Iraqi Exile Leading Move to Restore Homeland of Marsh Arabs
http://www.newhousenews.com/archive/mcquaid042103.html

ABC News (20 April 2003)
Back to Eden? Group Hopes to Reclaim Saddam-Drained 'Garden of Eden' Marshes.

The Plain Dealer (20 April 2003)
New Iraq may include return of marshes.

New Orleans Times-Picayune (19 April 2003)
Ruined marshland and its people may find new life.

National Public Radio, Marketplace Show (18 April 2003)
Interview with Dr. Suzie Alwash

Libération (16 April 2003)
L'extermination à petit feu des Arabes des marais.
http://www.liberation.fr/page.php?Article=104042

National Public Radio, Talk of the Nation (16 April 2003)
Interview with Dr. Azzam Alwash

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Chicago Tribune (15 April 2003)
Iraqis consider returning to a land of opportunity.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/iraq/
chi-0304150282apr15,0,5951126.story?coll=chi-news-hed

New Orleans Times-Picayune (15 April 2003)

Sify News, (13 April 2003)
Mythical Garden of Eden now a wasteland, Al-Qurna

Financial Times (12-13 April 2003)
Environmentalists head to rescue of marshes

TopKayaker.com (12 April 2003)
Almost Gone...But Not Forgotten: An Iraqi Kayaker Remembers His Homeland As A Paddler's Paradise"
http://www.sit-on-topkayaking.com/Articles/NatureIssues/Iraq.html

Badger Herald, University of Wisconsin (11 April 2003)
Hussein harangues Mesopotamian marshlands.

National Public Radio, WBUR (8 April 2003)
Restoring Iraq's Marshland
http://www.here-now.org/shows/2003/04/20030408.asp

Sacramento Bee (8 April 2003)
Wetlands expert sees Eden in Iraq

Knoxville News Sentinel (7 April 2003)
Iraqi marshlands hold key to post-war plans

San Francisco Chronicle (7 April 2003)
A Dream of Restoring Iraq’s Great Marshes
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2003/04/07/MN293104.DTL

Al Jazeera (6 April 2003)
Interview with Dr. Suzie Alwash and Dr. Curt Richardson

Minneapolis/St. Paul Star Tribune, (6 April 2003)
War and environment / What will be left to Iraqi people?
http://www.safewatergroup.org/whats_new/war_and_environment.htm

Houston Chronicle (4 April 2003)
World's Biggest Wetland Tragedy in Iraq

Voice of America (4 April 2003)
Will Mesopotamian Marshes Disappear?

Canton Repository (3 April 2003)
Land and people of marshy southern Iraq face crisis
http://www.cantonrep.com/index.php?Category=24&ID=92663&r=0

IPS News, Uruguay (3 April 2003)
IRAQ-ENVIRONMENT: Eden in the Line of Fire
http://ipsnews.net/interna.asp?idnews=17293

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Boston Globe (1 April 2003)
Reclaiming an Iraqi Eden. Saddam Hussein turned a thriving marshland into a poisoned desert. Can it be restored?
http://209.157.64.200/focus/f-news/887208/posts

ENN (1 April 2003)
Ancient Iraqi swamp culture drained but not dead.

Independent, UK (1 April 2003)
Can Saddam's desert be a Garden of Eden again?

Geo, Interscience Online (March 2003)
Worst Case Oder Eden Again?
http://www.g-o.de/geo-bin/frameset.pl?id=00001&frame1=titelgo.htm&frame2=
menue04.htm&frame3=kap4c/40af0048.htm

MSNBC (31 March 2003)
Iraq's 'Eden' shrivels under Saddam

PlanetSave.com (31 March 2003)
Ancient Iraqi swamp culture drained but not dead.

UPI Science News (29 March 2003)
Blue Planet: Paradise Lost – Again

Environmental Data Interactive (28 March 2003)
Biblical Garden of Eden to disappear in five years
http://www.edie.net/news/Archive/6816.cfm

The Moscow Times. (28 March 2003)
Oil Fires Threaten Migrating Birds Copyright 2002

National Public Radio (28 March 2003)
Living on Earth Program
http://www.loe.org/ETS/organizations.php3?action=printContentItem&orgid=33&typeID=
17&itemID=145&User_Session=3d017de2e7088bff124f6588386efc75

Christian Science Monitor (27 March 2003)
Watering Eden
http://www.csmonitor.com/2003/0327/p14s01-sten.html

The Economist (27 March 2003)
Spoils of War
http://www.economist.com/printedition/displayStory.cfm?Story_ID=1666489

Los Angeles Basin Geological Society (27 March 2003)
Presentation by Dr. Azzam Alwash
http://www.labgs.org/newsletters/MAR03news.pdf

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Society of Ethnobotanists (27 March 2003)
Eco-cultural Restoration of the Mesopotamian Marshlands by Michelle Stevens

UN Wire (27 March 2003)
IRAQ: UNEP Plans Marshland Restoration

UPI (27 March 2003)
Blue Planet : Paradise lost - - again
http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=20030327-065227-6183r

UN Wire (24 March 2003)
IRAQ: UNEP Warns War May Destroy "Garden Of Eden"
http://www.unfoundation.org/unwire/util/display_stories.asp?objid=32741

Daily Times, Pakistan (23 March 2003)
Ecosystem approach essential for water management: UNEP
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_23-3-2003_pg4_19

The Hindu, India (23 March 2003)
UN warns against eco disaster in Iraq

BBC (22 March 2003)
Iraq marshes vanishing.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/2875311.stm

ENS (22 March 2003)
Drying Mesopotamian Marshes Now Struck by Iraq War

UN News (22 March 2003)
UN calls for urgent action to preserve 'Garden of Eden' in southern Iraq.

Space Daily (22 March 2003)
Mesopotamian marshes a top environmental priority for Iraq rebuilding.

Washington Bureau (13 March 2003)
Arabs from Iraq Marshlands long for home despite ‘environmental disaster.

The Guardian (12 March 2003)
Return to Eden
http://society.guardian.co.uk/societyguardian/story/0,7843,911920,00.html

Miami Herald (10 March 2003)
Scientists to Restore “Eden” in Iraq Marsh

American Society of Civil Engineers News (February 2003)
Engineer Dreams of Restoring Iraqi Marshlands

Los Angeles Times (20 February 2003)
Exiles Make Plans to Rebuild Nation

Fox News (13 February 2003)
Appearance by Dr. Azzam Alwash

Front Line Defenders of Human Rights (17-19 January 2002)
Steps to Protection: The Dublin Platform for Human Rights Defenders, Testimonies from Human Rights Defenders, Dublin Castle

Fox News (16 January 2003)
Appearance by Dr. Azzam Alwash

Wall Street Journal (15 January 2003)
Iraqi Exile Hopes to Rebuild Marshes

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