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MAP: Humanitarian crisis briefings available on Google Earth
31 Jul 2008
Source: AlertNet
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Women buy fish at a market in Basra, 420 km (260 miles) southeast of Baghdad November 26, 2008. For the first time since the fall of Saddam Hussein in 2003, Iraqis ...



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