Wednesday, August 8, 2007

Disaster looms as 'Saddam dam' struggles to hold back the Tigris

By Patrick Cockburn in Mosul
Published: 08 August 2007

As world attention focuses on the daily slaughter in Iraq, a devastating disaster is impending in the north of the country, where the wall of a dam holding back the Tigris river north of Mosul city is in danger of imminent collapse. continue...



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