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Drought threatens Iraq's wetlands

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There's a warning that the marshes of southern Iraq are under threat because of the lack of rain.

Large areas of marshland were drained by Saddam Hussein to drive out rebels in the 1980s.

After his overthrow, the region was partly revived, and some of the inhabitants who fled came back. However, that recovery is now in question, as Jim Muir reports from Iraq.

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