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The Dust Bowl of Babylon

December 14, 2009

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The Dust Bowl of Babylon Are crippling droughts the next great threat to Iraq? Asks Martin Chulov. BAGHDAD — From his mud brick home on the edge of the Garden of Eden, Awda Khasaf has twice seen his country’s lifeblood seep away. The waters that once spread from his doorstep across a 20% slab of Iraq...
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