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Date: May 9, 2007 1:34:20 PM PDT
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Subject: Old Dead-Man River
River Tigris becoming a graveyard of bodies
08 May 2007 (IRIN)
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/IRIN/
bbc635469a6b3073f9b596fc7cf9fdae.htm
The River Tigris has long been a symbol of prosperity in Iraq but
since the US-led invasion in 2003, this amazing watercourse has
turned into a graveyard of bodies. In addition, the water level is
decreasing as pollution increases, say environmentalists.
Pollution in the river is caused by oil derivatives and industrial
waste as well as Iraqi and US military waste, they say. The river
was one of the main sources of water, food, transport and
recreation for the local population but after four years of war and
pollution, it has been transformed into a stagnant sewer, according
to environmentalists.
[REPOST of earlier e-mail]
what appears to be a lake of blood
in satellite imagery from Baghdad
Wednesday, February 14, 2007
http://boingboing.net/2007/02/14/google_earth_helpful.html
BBC News Baghdad correspondent Andrew North reports that some
people in Iraq are using Google Earth to avoid sectarian violence
in Baghdad:
One tip - on the Iraq League site, one of the best known -- is for
people to draw up maps of their local area using Google Earth's
detailed imagery of Baghdad so they can work out escape routes and
routes to block.
Link (Thanks, Joshua)
On a related note, this satellite photo of Baghdad via Google Maps
appears to depict a gigantic lake of blood.
A BB pal in "baggers" says it's more likely sewage, "but there's no
shortage of either right now in this place." (sorry, I can't
remember who suggested this map link)
Reader comments: Jon Z Swanson, CPT, AR, with the Office of the
Speechwriter for the Commanding General in the Combined Arms Center
at Ft. Leavenworth, KS, says:
Referencing the Iraq map of Baghdad that was posted on
BoingBoing.net - the area that is displayed in the screenshot and
link to Google Maps is the northern end of Sadr City.
I was posted there at FOB Eagle (about a km east of that
screenshotted area) from Mar 2004 - Mar 2005 with the 1st Cav
Division, and that canal is what used to be known as the "Army
Canal" to the Iraqis.
The canal is indeed filled with raw sewage and trash. It's possible
that it appears red in the photo due to either camera/film problems
or someone may have dumped something in that particular section of
the canal that day that changed the color. It's normally a nasty
combination of grey/green.
Interesting bit of trivia about that canal by the way - the entire
eastern half of Baghdad eventually dumps all its waste water sewage
into that canal as it moves south, and then the canal joins up with
the Tigris River outside of the city. Now guess where most of the
people who live along the river south of Baghdad get their water
supplied from?
Bryan William Jones says,
Regarding the canal of blood: I was told by a friend of mine (US
Army Captain who spent a not inconsiderable time in Baghdad) that
in parts of Baghdad, there are slaughter houses that dump the
"waste blood" of animals into canals, turning them red with blood.
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