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  • Now, just to remind viewers what happened yesterday morning local time that sparked what is emerging as a tense standoff, in what is called Shatt al Arab to the Iraqis -- it's called Arbon Rud (ph) to the Iranians -- in a waterway that feeds in, as I say, to the northern part of the Persian Gulf, British military were out yesterday looking for smuggled goods.

    CNN Transcript Mar 24, 2007 2007

  • One, which is called Shatt en Nil to the north, and Shatt el Kar to the south, curved eastward from Babylon, and sweeping past Nippur, flowed like the letter S towards Larsa and then rejoined the river.

    Myths of Babylonia and Assyria Donald Alexander Mackenzie 1904

  • Of these the first place it near the head of the Persian Gulf where the Tigris and Euphrates rivers meet in the junction called the Shatt el-'Arab waterway, which once formed a point of conflict between Iraq and Iran.

    Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] Karajou 2010

  • For US troops in Baghdad, car bombers had become the biggest threat but in the "Shatt", B Company came under a different kind of attack - every night, the soldiers were mortared by Katyusha rockets, forcing them to sleep under the hard cover of one big, fetid room rather than in the tents that had been erected around the camp.

    The Guardian World News 2009

  • There may not be a Parasite Hiltonian in WoW, but there IS a female Blood Elf named Haris Pilton with her pet Tinkerbell (a wolf pup) in the Lower City Inn in Shatt.

    EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - Today’s Comic: “Questing of the Stars” 2008

  • There is no way that the US would clear the pitch, leaving not just an exposed Shatt-el-Arab and indeed a flegdling Iraqi state, vulnerable to Shia attack from the East.

    The McCain factor 2008

  • The GZG “defence” minister says they cleared Mahdi army fighters from Al-Ashar, Tanouma, Shatt Al-Arab, al-Zubair.

    Archive 2008-03-01 2008

  • The GZG “defence” minister says they cleared Mahdi army fighters from Al-Ashar, Tanouma, Shatt Al-Arab, al-Zubair.

    Children and Others Dying in Iraq Recently 2008

  • Some of the major rivers flowing into the Indian Ocean include the Zambezi, Arvandrud/Shatt-al-Arab, Indus, Ganges, Brahmaputra, and the Irrawaddy.

    Indian Ocean 2009

  • Some of the major rivers flowing into the Indian Ocean include the Zambezi, Arvandrud/Shatt-al-Arab, Indus, Ganges, Brahmaputra, and the Irrawaddy.

    Indian Ocean 2009

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