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| | Tigris River Pollution Critical |
 | | Environmentalists say Iraq's interim government must clean up a river that provides drinking water for Baghdad and much of southern Iraq, saying risks should not be overlooked even though the leadership is focused on crushing insurgents. | | | But river police stopped them short citing security concerns. | | | Engineers who have witnessed the steady decline of Iraq's waste management facilities are under no illusions at the scale of the task ahead -- and the need for donor support. |
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| | ABC News: Dozens of Bodies Found in Tigris River |
| | Police and health officials said victims are sometimes killed and dumped in the river. | | | BAGHDAD, Iraq Apr 21, 2005 — Iraq's interim president announced Wednesday the recovery of more than 50 bodies from the Tigris River, saying the grisly discovery was proof of claims that dozens were abducted from an area south of the capital despite a fruitless search by Iraqi forces. | | | They were killed, and they threw the bodies into the Tigris," Talabani told reporters. |
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| | SurfWax: News, Reviews and Articles On Tigris River |
| | The men had their hands tied and were executed by gunshots, according to the defence ministry, which said the bodies were found near the village of Balad. | | | BAGHDAD, Iraq - Insurgents assassinated a Kurdish member of parliament and police found 20 bodies shot to death and dumped in the Tigris River north of the capital, where there was no major violence Sunday for the first time in five days. | | | Hassan Ali, an engineer in the Sunni Khudat district, said he and all his neighbours had voted "no", many motivated by what they saw as the treachery of the Iraqi Islamic Party, which had broken ranks with other Sunni groups at the last minute and supported the constitution. |
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| | Voices in the Wilderness : Iraq Struggles to Restore Its Endangered Tigris River |
| | Three months ago, for making exactly the same measurement in the Tigris, he and several other colleagues from the ministry were shot at, rounded up, hooded and handcuffed by the Iraqi police working with American troops who apparently decided that he had been acting suspiciously. | | | Bachmann negotiated with the Iraqi river police the right of safe passage - an agreement that repeatedly ran aground. | | | The trip was ultimately truncated when a shadowy Iraqi security official named Major Basim telephoned to say that he was overwhelmed with calls from people who were astonished to see boats on the Tigris. |
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| | SignOnSanDiego.com > In Iraq -- Iraqi president says dozens of bodies found in Tigris River |
| | In a separate discovery, another 19 Iraqis were shot to death and left lined up against a bloodstained wall in a soccer stadium in the town of Haditha, about 140 miles northwest of Baghdad, an Iraqi reporter and residents said. | | | The bodies were believed to have been those of hostages seized in the Madain region earlier this month. | | | BAGHDAD, Iraq &; The bodies of more than 50 people have been recovered from the Tigris River and have been identified, President Jalal Talabani said Wednesday. |
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http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/world/iraq/20050420-0817-iraq.html
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| | Guardian Unlimited Special reports Fifty bodies pulled from Tigris river |
| | "More than 50 bodies have been brought out from the Tigris, and we have the full names of those who were killed and those criminals who committed these crimes," Mr Talabani told reporters. | | | The bodies of 69 people, apparently victims of separate insurgent attacks, were discovered in two locations in Iraq today. | | | Shia leaders and government officials claimed last week that Sunni militants had abducted as many as 100 Shia residents from the area, but when Iraqi forces moved into Madaen, they found no captives. |
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1464288,00.html
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| | MSN Encarta - Tigris |
| | In southern Iraq the Tigris joins with the Euphrates to form the Shatt al Arab, which is 170 km (110 mi) long and flows to the head of the Persian Gulf. | | | All of these rivers join the Tigris in Iraq. | | | Major cities on the river include Diyarbakır in Turkey and Mosul and Baghdād in Iraq. |
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http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/refpages/RefArticle.aspx?refid=761574188
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| | Trial begins for Army sergeant accused of ordering two Iraqi civilians tossed into Tigris River |
| | He is charged with involuntary manslaughter, conspiracy, aggravated assault, obstruction of justice and lying to investigators. | | | She said she could not confirm whether the corpse shown in a video provided by the family was Zaidoun's. | | | The young men were detained by U.S. troops, Schiffer said, quoting Perkins as saying "any curfew violators are getting wet tonight." He said the Iraqis were driven to the river's edge and pushed in. |
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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2005/01/05/national0546EST0470.DTL
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| | Tigris River |
| | US-led troops from Iraq often fire mortars and rockets at hotels used by foreign journalists and security contractors on the eastern bank of the Tigris river. | | | Iraq sends troops to key city of Mosul to quell uprising believed... | | | ...who really runs Mosul, but rather, a constellation of groups -- insurgents and Arab nationalists on the west bank of the Tigris River, Kurdish political... |
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http://conservation.mongabay.com/Tigris_River.htm
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| | The Tigris River |
| | As a result, the Tigris is more subject to catastrophic flooding than the Euphrates. | | | The Tigris and Euphrates meet just below Qurna, from which point the Tigris is called the Shatt al Arab and is full of marshy water from the Euphrates and surrounding marshes. | | | Although the upper reaches of the Tigris are higher than the Euphrates, in southern Iraq the bed of the Tigris is lower than that of the Euphrates and the canals between the two rivers have their tailings in the Tigris, causing the water in these canals to flow from west to east.. |
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| | Iraq Says US Troops Have not Crossed Tigris River |
| | Iraqi information minister Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf denied on Wednesday that US troops had crossed the Tigris river in the attack toward Baghdad as claimed by US officials. | | | Ealier Wednesday, US officials said US Marines had seized a key crossing over the Tigris river near Kut earlier in the day. |
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| | Iraqi reports of bodies found in Tigris river not verified: Pentagon |
| | The US military has not verified Iraqi government reports that the bodies of nearly 60 people were recovered from the Tigris river, a Pentagon spokesman said Thursday. | | | Iraqi President Jalal Talabani on Wednesday said the bodies of people who had been killed and dumped into the river had been recovered in an area south of Baghdad. | | | Police said 57 bodies had washed up downriver from a town where unconfirmed reports over the weekend -- later denied by Iraqi officials -- said Shiites were being held by Sunni rebels. |
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| | Tigris River -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia |
| | Leaving Turkey, the Tigris touches the northeastern border of Syria and then flows southeastward across Iraq. | | | Hellenistic city founded by Seleucus I Nicator (reigned 312–281 BC) as his eastern capital; it replaced Babylon as Mesopotamia's leading city and was closely associated with the spread of Hellenistic culture in Mesopotamia. |
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http://www.britannica.com/ebi/article-9277358?tocId=9277358
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| | WATER RESOURCES IN THE MIDDLE EAST: FORTHCOMING PROBLEMS AND SOLUTIONS FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT OF THE REGION |
| | The 1967 war, which Israel launched against Jordan, Syria and Egypt, aimed, among other objectives, at securing more Israeli control of the Jordan River high waters (Wolff,1996). | | | Turkey, at the time, agreed to begin monitoring the two streams and to share the related data with Iraq. | | | Although there are several rivers/watersheds of trans-boundary character and all of the states in the ME are either upper or lower riparian of one of these rivers, only Syria's legal position on water rights has not only been ambivalent but also very contradictory. |
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http://www.akdeniz.edu.tr/muhfak/publications/gap.html
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| | Pollution Chokes the Tigris, a Main Source of Baghdad’s Drinking Water |
| | Khammo complained in particular about dumping -- which he referred to as a "disaster" -- near the Kellogg Brown and Root warehouse and yards on the east end of the presidential palace. | | | NADEC draws on the labor of around 1,000 workers, said co-founder Salim Kamel. | | | Tigris River water is a concentrated cocktail of pesticides, fertilizers, oil, gasoline and heavy metals, reports Dr. Husni Mohammed, an Iraqi who holds a PhD in Environmental and Biological Science and has researched the condition of the Tigris. |
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| | Ilisu Dam, Tigris River, Turkey |
| | The Ilisu project violates all of the strategic priorities of the WCD; some key shortcomings are described below. | | | Recently, the Swedish company Skanska withdrew, reportedly because the project does not meet international standards. | | | The WCD report recommends that where a government agency plans or facilitates the construction of a dam on a shared river in contravention of the principle of good faith negotiations between riparians, external financing bodies withdraw their support for projects and programmes promoted by that agency. |
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| | Survey along the Tigris River=TheHill.com= |
| | Recent news reports said Palestinian groups adopted the moral equivalent of “negative push polling,” reportedly placing random telephone calls to Iraqi homes after the invasion began, voicing solidarity and brotherhood in their opposition to American war aims. | | | A United Nations study says that more than 400,000 phones were knocked out by the first Gulf War, but the CIA Fact Book says there are at least 675,000 lines today — and our forces don’t seem intent on knocking them out. | | | That’s not much of a phone system to work with, but it’s a start if someone cared to try polling along the Tigris. |
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| | Tigris River |
| | After the Tigris and Euphrates join, the river-way is called the 'Shat el Arab', and continues to the Persian Gulf. | | | Tigris is used by the Septuagint as the Greek equivalent of the Hebrew Hiddekel. | | | Tigris is used by the Septuagint and occurs also in several of the apocryphal books, as in Tobit 6:1, Judith 1:6, and Ecclesiaticus 24:21. |
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| | Tigris - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Damming has also been important for averting floods in Iraq, to which the Tigris has historically been notoriously prone following snowmelt in the Turkish mountains around April. | | | Baghdad, the capital of Iraq, stands on the western bank of the Tigris, while the port city of Basra straddles both the Tigris and the Euphrates. | | | This page was last modified 05:56, 10 October 2005. |
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| | MSN Encarta - Multimedia - Tigris River, Iraq |
| | MSN Encarta - Multimedia - Tigris River, Iraq | | | Present-day Iraq occupies the greater part of the ancient land of Mesopotamia, the plain between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. | | | The Tigris River as it flows through Iraq. |
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| | Boston.com / Rebuilding Iraq |
| | TIKRIT, Iraq American forces focused their hunt for Saddam Hussein around his Tigris River hometown and reported a near-miss Sunday in a raid to capture his new chief of security and perhaps the ousted dictator himself. | | | Americans hunt for Saddam around his Tigris River hometown; One soldier killed | | | A look at how the world has changed one year after the terrorist attacks. |
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| | Bodies of 50 Former Hostages Discovered in Iraq's Tigris River |
| | "There [were], they were killed and they [the hostage-takers] threw the bodies into the Tigris and more than 50 bodies have been brought out from the Tigris and we have the full names of those that were killed and those criminals who committed those crimes. | | | Iraq& president says the bodies of 50 people who were held hostage in recent days have been recovered from the Tigris River, and he has vowed action against the killers. | | | Meanwhile, people in a town northwest of Baghdad reported they found 19 bullet-riddled bodies in a soccer stadium, and they believe the dead men were new Iraqi soldiers. |
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| | Eightlinks: U.S. Hunts for Saddam Around Tigris River |
| | "American forces focused their hunt for Saddam Hussein around his Tigris River hometown and reported a near-miss Sunday in a raid to capture his new chief of security - and perhaps the ousted dictator himself. | | | Eightlinks: U.S. Hunts for Saddam Around Tigris River | | | 7 U.S. Hunts for Saddam Around Tigris River |
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| | Resources on the Tigris River from academic institutions |
| | BACK TO THE POINT:...granularity the possibility that Hussein or his family was -- or soon would be -- | | | The Euphrates River joins the Tigris in Iraq and becomes the | | | Map Locations to Know: United Arab Emirates, Oman (note that Oman is in two parts), Yemen, Water Bodies: |
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| | Tigris |
| | At Qurna, Tigris joins with the Euphrates, and for the remaining 170 km to the outlet at the Persian Gulf, it is known as Shatt El Arab. | | | Along its course, the Tigris passes through some of the major cities of Iraq, like Mosul, Tikrit, Samarra, and the capital Baghdad. | | | The Tigris has been an important river up through history, and was one of the main sources for the ancient Mesopotamian civilizations. |
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| | This is confirmed by the fact that in Eridu, fish bones have been found of a species of bass that does not live in a salty climate. | | | The Tigris flood reaches Babylonia in May-June, which is at a very unlucky moment, because the harvest is in April. | | | There are not many great cities, because the river is subject to flooding. |
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| | River Tigris began at Ophiuchus then it meandered its way between Aquila, Hercules, Cygnus, Sagitta, Equuleus, and finally ended near Pegasus. | | | The constellation was created by the German astronomer Jakob Bartsch during the seventeenth century. | | | The constellation appear on a few subsequent star atlases, but never found wide acceptance and was quickly forgotten. |
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| | Tigris River |
| | Both rivers were the lifeblood of Mesopotamian civilizations, giving them water and a vehicle for their trade and defense. | | | This great site takes you back in time to the ancient days, when the Tigris and Euphrates were the main vehicles for trade. | | | River that was a boundary of Mesopotamia, or the "land between the rivers" (Tigris and Euphrates) The Tigris was the eastern of the two rivers and flowed from a source deep in the Armenian mountains all the way to the Persian Gulf, about 1,200 miles. |
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| | Baghdad's Tigris River -- ThingsAsian Article |
| | People say the regime commandeered river locations and forced people to sell their land for nominal amounts. | | | From the time Saddam took power, public access to the banks shrank year by year. | | | "Bagdad owes its existence to the Tigris, and Saddam deprived people here of their river," says Jalal Mashata, editor in chief of the An-Nahda newspaper. |
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| | WAR: Second 'Westerner' Corpse Found in Tigris River |
| | A second body, described as that of a "Westerner," has been found floating in Iraq's Tigris River today. | | | IRAQI police have retrieved a second corpse dressed in an orange jumpsuit from the Tigris River near the northern Iraqi city of Mosul and turned it over to the US military. | | | The man, described only as a Westerner, was found in the river outside Mosul, 370km north of Baghdad, with his throat slit, said police General Salem Haj Issa. |
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| | Tigris + Euphrates River Gunboats |
| | PS 96 (she cannot have been PS 98, as the highest number was 97) was one of the large fleet of the Rivers Steam Navigation Co of Calcutta which was requisitioned for service in Mesopotamia, though in this case not until 1917. | | | By mid-1919 she had returned to England and was sent as the Admiralty TC 1 (troop carrier) to the North Russian Rivers Campaign on the River Dvina. | | | She was built as KHAROTI at the owner's own yard in Calcutta in 1912 to plans by William Denny & Brothers, Dumbarton, who also manufactured the engine (she and her sister TARAKI - later PS 95 - were later sisters of the Denny-built SWATI, yd 807, and DAWARI, yd 808, of 1907). |
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| | Where The West Begins: Tigris River |
| | Due to the locations of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, Iraq has been considered one of the possible locations of the Garden of Eden. | | | A thought really struck me this evening while checking the news coverage of Operation Iraqui freedom. | | | The news caster was pointing out an area of Bagdad that sits in a loop of the Tigris River. |
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| | Ancient Babylonia - The Tigris River |
| | The Tigris River was known by the Hebrews as "Hiddekel" and is one of the two large rivers of Mesopotamia, which the Bible says, flowed from the Garden of Eden (Gen 2:14). | | | In ancient times the courses of the Tigris and Euphrates were separate. | | | Their confluence before they flow into the Persian Gulf is very recent. |
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| | Tigris and its twin river, euphrates meet in bagdad. | | | I want to find out what the culture is like around the tigris river | | | what is the weather like around the tigris river i need to know this for my report I"m doing on the Tigris river |
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| | UEHS Library - Tigress River Web Quest - Ancient Civilizations - October 1999 |
| | You will be traveling back in time to the year 3000 B.C. to the site of ancient Mesopotamia, one of the world's first civilizations. | | | UEHS Library - Tigress River Web Quest - Ancient Civilizations - October 1999 | | | As you travel your task will be to keep a journal of different things that you see and learn along the way. |
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| | Tigris River |
| | Aug 15, 2004 Police retrieved his corpse in the Tigris River near the town of Baiji, | | | The river flows southeastward across the arid Syrian plateau into Iraq, where it | | | Tropical Rainforests - Their Wonders and the Perils They Face. |
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| | Greek Mythology: TIGRIS River God of Assyria, Asia |
| | Other important rivers of the east included the Euphrates of Assyria, and Orontes of Syria, as well as the Ganges and Hydaspes of India. | | | Greek Mythology: TIGRIS River God of Assyria, Asia | | | Of the same descent Rivers: Strymon, Nile, Euphrates, Tanais, Indus, Cephisus, Ismenus, Axenus, Achelous, Simoeis, Inachus, Alpheus, Thermodon, Scamandrus, Tigris, Maeandrus, Orontes." - Hyginus, Preface |
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| | The Tigris-Euphrates river valley, sometimes referred to as the Fertile Crescent or Mesopotamia ("Land Between the Rivers"), is an area that has supported numerous civilizations throughout history. |
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| | The Heritage of the Great War is dedicated to the events and consequences of World War One. | | | They also occupied the terminal of the oil pipeline and the refineries on the island of Abadan in the river of Shatt El Arab, in the south-western corner of Persia (Iran). | | | Joseph went through all of it: the first German attacks near Nancy in 1914, the battle of Verdun in 1916 and the offensives at the rivers Aisne and Marne in 1917 and 1918. |
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| | Persian Gulf Online |
| | This is an English map showing the Middle East from the Western Mediterranean through Persia as far south as the Persian Gulf (in the bottom right corner) and as far north as the Caspian Sea. | | | Has some interesting details, including the location of the ruins of Babel and the course of the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers. | | | It is published by A and C Black and clearly depicts the Persian Gulf and the area from the Tigris River in the West to the Indus River in the East from Baldwin maps (http://www.baldwinsmaps.com/maps/926.jpg) |
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| | Crosswalk.com |
| | With him it is "the Great River." The Tigris, in its upper course, anciently ran through Armenia and Assyria. | | | These are the river of Zakko or eastern Khabour, the Great Zab (Zab Ala), the Lesser Zab (Zab Asfal), the Adhem, and the Diyaleh or ancient Gyndes. | | | The Tigris, like the Euphrates, rises from two principal sources in the Armenian mountains, and flows into the Euphrates. |
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| | Nineveh on Encyclopedia.com |
| | (nĬn´eve), ancient city, capital of the Assyrian Empire, on the Tigris River opposite the site of modern Mosul, Iraq. | | | A shaft dug at Nineveh has yielded a pottery sequence that can be equated with the earliest cultural development in N Mesopotamia. |
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