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Restoring Iraq's Eden Anyone who watched the 2003 television coverage of coalition troops hurtling across barren desert wastelands through raging dust storms saw the legendary ......(Continue Reading) Faith, shame, and insurgency: life in occupied Iraq UNLESS YOU'RE A VIP who can fly directly into the Baghdad airport, the usual way to get to the city is from Amman, Jordan--a 600-mile, 12-hour-plus drive (depending on the vagaries of Jordanian cus...(Continue Reading)THE IRAQ CONFLICT: Can Saddam's desert be a Garden of Eden again? WHEN AZZAM Alwash was a boy he went duck-hunting with his father on the Mesopotamian marshes. They took an old wooden boat and rowed south from his ......(Continue Reading)Back to the garden The vast Mesopotamian marshes of southern Iraq supported a lush ecosystem and unique culture for over 5,000 years. Then came Saddam Hussein; he drained ......(Continue Reading)NEWSWEEK COVER: 'The Race to Unearth the Bible'; Looters and the Ravages of War Destroying Sacred Religious Artifacts in Iraq, the Mythical Location of NEW YORK, Aug. 22 /PRNewswire/ -- Beneath the sands and silt of Iraq, the mythical location of the Garden of Eden, countless truths wait to be pieced ......(Continue Reading)
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