Three hundred people of the al-Madain district in south-east Baghdad were poisoned yesterday because of drinking polluted water. Chairman of the District Advisory Council Hameed Husam said poisoning was the result of drinking water supplied by the Diala river which is full of pollutants from sewage and industrial waste.Can toxic waste dumps be far behind?
Saturday, May 15, 2004
Another sign that Iraq is joining the civilized world
First there was mad cow disease, now this, from Azzaman, a London-based Arab language daily newspaper, via the Iraqi Press Monitor for May 13:
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