Dying in the desert: The villagers trapped in no-man's land - CNN
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On a barren patch of desert in northern Iraq, Abu Tiba and hundreds of other civilians wait for the torment to end.
The freezing nights, the food shortages and -- worst of all -- the mortars and artillery shells that land with terrifying regularity on this area of desert, which is a temporary home to sheep and cattle herders.
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