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Angry Shi'ites storm Schlumberger camp at Iraq's Rumaila oilfield
2013-11-12 09:07:03| Energy - Topix.net
Dozens of angry Shi'ite Muslim workers and tribesmen stormed a Schlumberger Ltd camp at one of Iraq's main oilfields and wrecked offices early on Monday after accusing a foreign security adviser of insulting their religion, police and employees at the field said.
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Angry Shi'ites storm Schlumberger camp at Iraq's Rumaila oilfield
2013-11-12 08:30:31| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
Dozens of angry Shi'ite Muslim workers and tribesmen stormed a Schlumberger Ltd camp at one of Iraq's main oilfields and wrecked offices early on Monday after accusing a foreign security adviser of insulting their religion, police and employees at the field said.
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Iraq's Only Known Billionaire Brought in Wireless, Hires Women
2013-09-24 10:13:38| Wireless - Topix.net
Faruk Mustafa Rasool first saw a mobile phone in 1998 while he was lying in a London hospital bed recovering from quadruple heart bypass surgery.
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Mesopotamian Marshlands Declared Iraqs First National Park
2013-08-02 18:13:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Environment News Service: Drained by development and nearly destroyed under Saddam Husseins regime, the Central Marshes of Iraq have now been declared the countrys first national park. The Iraqi Council of Ministers approved the designation on July 23. The efforts to declare this unique landscape a park and protected area began in 2006 through a joint effort by Iraqs Ministry of Water Resources, Ministry of Environment, and Ministry of Municipalities with support from Nature Iraq, an Iraqi environmental conservation organization,...
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We can save Iraq's 'Garden of Eden'
2013-04-23 09:47:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New Scientist: Engineer Azzam Alwash is intent on restoring the fabled Mesopotamian marshes in southern Iraq that Saddam Hussein tried to wreck Some say the marshes of southern Iraq are the origin of the Garden of Eden story. Why did Saddam Hussein drain them? He said it was to make dry land for agriculture. He dug canals and diverted the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, causing 90 per cent of the marshes to dry out. But really, he saw the Marsh Arabs who lived there, fishing, cutting reeds and tending water...