Middle East

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Geotimes October 2003 Naomi Lubick	Iraq's Marshes Renewed Decades of damming and canal building under Saddam Hussein's regime and in other parts of the Middle East have diminished the Iraqi marshlands to 7 percent their original size. There are only good reasons to restore the marshes of Iraq.
BusinessWeek September 29, 2003 John Rossant	Now Iraq May Bring Ankara and Washington Together Relations between longtime allies Turkey and the U.S., severely strained as a result of the Iraq conflict, may be set to improve dramatically.
BusinessWeek September 22, 2003 Walczak & Crock	Colin Powell: On Iraq, Bush, and His Job Those who gloat at the idea of Bush asking other nations to help rebuild Iraq "better not gloat too soon." There will be plenty of contracts for foreign companies "to get a piece of the action."
Fast Company September 2003 Jessica Steinberg	Driving in the Valley of the Shadow of Death It's the management problem from hell: How do you run a company whose customers and employees are being killed?
BusinessWeek August 25, 2003 Stanley Reed	Who's the Real Enemy in Iraq? Until the U.S. learns to distinguish friend from foe, it'll keep alienating more and more Iraqis
ifeminists July 29, 2003 Carey Roberts	Muted Voices From The Killing Fields Of Iraq According to Amnesty International, hundreds of thousands of Iraqis have simply disappeared since the early 1980s. Despite the varied nationalities and ethnic and religious backgrounds of these victims, almost all of them had one thing in common: they were male.
BusinessWeek August 4, 2003 Stan Crock	Iraq: After the Shootout This is one guerrilla campaign the U.S. can't afford to lose.
Reason July 2003 Iraj Isaac Rahmim	Where the Shah Went Alone Meditations on a life under tyranny
Outside July 2003 Peter Maass	The Rough Guide to Iraq This spring, a quarter of a million Americans took a trip. It was noisy, hot, and violent. Accommodations were poor. Some of them didn't come back.
Geotimes June 2003 Greg Peterson	Models of Iraq's toxic plume under fire Congressional auditors announced that the atmospheric dispersion models used to estimate the path a toxic plume followed after a 1991 bombing of Iraqi chemical warhead stockpiles were flawed and may have greatly underestimated the number of soldiers exposed to the chemicals.
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