Life in Baghdad's Slums: Fighting to Survive in Sadr City

Der Spiegel by Ulrike Putz | Sep. 1, 2010 (News)

Iraq's poorest people live on trash heaps, sleep amongst the rats and drink polluted water. In the country with the world's third largest oil reserves, a million people live in misery, despite the fact that the US has spent $53 billion on the country's reconstruction efforts. Full Story »

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Posted by: Posted by Sirajul Islam - Sep 1, 2010 - 11:07 PM PDT
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Edited by: Joey Baker - Sep 2, 2010 - 8:04 AM PDT

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 by Joey Baker - Sep. 2, 2010

Anecdotally true, this article lacks much in the way of context. There is plenty of information about how things got so bad for the Sadrists, but little information about how to fix the problem.

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