David Bacon Stories & Photographs
Iraq

Oil for Freedom
Part 4

75 Basra and Um Qasr

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75 Basra and Um Qasr
Next to this military scrapheap is a pond collecting toxic runoff from the scrapped equipment. Behind it are apartment houses with hundreds of families. The wreckage includes depleted uranium residue, which poses a big health hazard to residents.

  
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