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Drought threatens Marsh Arabs

Miles of reed stalks and baked mud are all that can be seen of much of Iraq's ancient marshes this year, as a lack of water threatens to turn one of the world's most important wetlands to wasteland.

Reuters | February 3, 2009Watch more videos from Reuters

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