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/ 30 October 2007
A 2m shark has been caught in a river in southern Iraq more than 200km from the sea. Karim Hasan Thamir said he was fishing with his sons last week when they spotted a large fish thrashing about in his net. ”I recognised the fish as a shark because I have seen one on a television programme,” he told Reuters.
At a bleak and barren airbase in southern Iraq, the United States and British governments began the process of forging a post-Saddam Hussein government in their own image: a liberal democracy, preferably headed by a Western-educated elite.