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	The Final Demise of Babylon..

Gul Agha

7-14-2009 1:37 PM

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7-14-2009 2:01 PM

jatfla

Same thing is happening with the Jordan River.

7-14-2009 2:48 PM

Gul Agha

And Indus.. dams have blocked Indus and its tributaries devastating the ancient Sindhi civilization.
http://www.saveindus.org

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A boy rested on the mud in a dried-up section of the Euphrates River near Jubaish, Iraq, in June.
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