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| Life after the war ![]() A series of special Breakfast reports With the war in Iraq now over, attention is focused on re-building the country as life slowly gets back to normal. But how easy is it to re-build a country which has suffered four decades of brutal dictatorship?
There are huge queues of men seeking work - and some people wish Saddam had never been toppled
Sammi Mohammed was a soldier with Saddam's elite Republican Guard. But, when the time came to fight, he and many of his comrades simply melted away. Sammi's father and brother were both imprisoned by Saddam: "I gave my father and my brother for Saddam, why me and why my family? We would have been in the streets."
In the past, the 28th of April was a big day in Iraq as the population was made to mark Saddam Hussein's birthday. This year there is heightened security in Baghdad and concern among some living there that Saddam's followers may attack the city.
The war in Iraq and the mass looting that followed has left the country bereft of some of its greatest treasures. Representatives from several of the world's finest museums meet in London today to see what they can to do help. As Breakfast's Graham Satchell reports, the museums and ancient sites of Iraq are looking forward to a brighter future after Saddam.
For many people in Iraq, the weeks since Saddam Hussein's fall have failed to bring a return to normal life. In the capital, most of the essential services are still practically non existent. But one vital group has kept working throughout the bombing, the street battles, and the anarchy that followed: they're the fire-fighters of Baghdad. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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