Amara, Iraq - Republic of
IRAQI CHILDREN PLAY AMID SHELL CASINGS ON SALE IN THE TOWN OF AMARA.
Iraqi children play amid shell casings on sale in the town of Amara on
Thursday, May 22, 2003. In southern Iraq, impoverished by decades of
war, dictatorship and sanctions, finding abandoned ammunition can mean
earning desperately needed cash - or death.
REUTERS/Faleh Kheiber