Baghdadâs Street-Cleaners Hope for Less Work
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Street-sweepers can receive bonus pay for cleaning up after bombings, but they do not relish the grisly job.
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BAGHDAD, Feb. 19 -- The Iraqi government has a new tactic in its fight against the insurgency: clearing the streets of the mentally disabled and homeless.
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BAGHDAD, March 9 -- On a pile of bricks, someone had left a pink plastic flower, a pair of glasses and a book with crisp, white pages. They glowed in the black debris of Mutanabi Street, which by Friday had become a graveyard of memories. At 9:03 a.m., a man in a rumpled brown suit walked past dark...
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Iraqi authorities plan to round up homeless and mentally ill residents on Baghdad streets to prevent them from becoming used, knowingly or unknowingly, as suicide bombers by insurgents, an Interior Ministry official said Tuesday.
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By The Sacramento Bee, Calif.  Sep. 18--A familiar and often jarring sound -- the clanking and grinding  of garbage trucks -- will make a welcome comeback this morning as Sacramento  County sanitation workers return to their jobs after a two-week strike.
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FALLUJAH, Iraq -- US military officers contending with scattered gun battles across this smoldering city predict it will be weeks -- and longer in some neighborhoods -- before residents can return and work can begin on rebuilding hundreds of houses damaged in the fighting and on overhauling water, electricity, and sewage systems weakened by years of neglect.
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Officials in an administration that has gotten the US bogged down in an unpopular war and overseen a net loss of jobs and a net increase in poverty should be polishing their resumes for their inevitable defeat in November.
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Government response has been praised, but the poorest are still looking for work or new homes.
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Iraqi officials plan to dig a series   of trenches around Baghdad in the coming weeks to seal it off   and control movement into and out of the city, The New York   Times reported on Saturday.
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MAHMOUDIAH, Iraq -- This bloody and lawless region south of Baghdad illustrates the destabilizing results of a hands-off approach to Iraqi trouble spots.
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The State Department and other government agencies are having trouble filling great, career-enhancing jobs in Baghdad as part of the new Iraq reconstruction push. Many agency employees are hesitant to sign up for these new "provincial reconstruction teams" because they think they might be killed....
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BAGHDAD -- The relative lull in violence is a promising sign that the Baghdad security plan is off to a good start, the Iraqi prime minister said yesterday, while a top US military official cautioned that it might be a temporary letup as militant organizations assess the new measures and gear up to fight back.
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BAGHDAD, Dec. 14 -- Hardly a soul stirred on Thursday afternoon inside the warren of narrow dark alleys and side streets in Sanak, one of the Iraqi capital's busiest commercial districts. Shop after shop remained closed, their steel doors sealed with thick padlocks. Empty stalls, flanked by...
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KIRKUK, Iraq -- Hassan Mohammed Amin brought his seven children to a 200-square-yard patch of mud and set up home on the edge of this city in August as part of an ambitious attempt to reverse Saddam Hussein's ethnic cleansing.
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BAGHDAD -- Browsing the shelves of a cosmetics store in the Karrada  shopping district, Zahra Khalid felt giddy at the sight of Alberto shampoo and Miss Rose eye shadow, blusher and powder.
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Sitting amid mounds of rotting garbage in a rubbish dump in Baghdad, 13-year-old Huda Hamdan is the human face of a new U.N. report that says a third of war- torn Iraq's 26 million people live in poverty.
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BEIJING -- In the downtown Environmental Sanitation Bureau, 100 public toilet cleaners sat at rapt attention in neat rows, red armbands pinned to the sleeves of their immaculate purple jumpsuits.