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Snipers And Sewage: Why Oil-Rich Basra Is A Symbol Of What’s Wrong With Today’s Iraq

Outside a shop in Basra
Outside a shop in Basra 17th Fire Brigades

Ten years after Saddam’s fall, Iraq’s richest city is rife with courruption and can’t even clean up after itself.

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