Basrah (2nd part)


Basrawis watching scenes of Saddam's capture at a CD stand

Basrawis watching scenes of Saddam's capture at a CD stand 2

Street vendor selling posters of Shi'ite holy figures

Local marketplace

Street vendors who asked me for a photo

Electronics and sattelites market

Abandoned amusement park on Shatt Al-Arab

dismantled naval mine on the Kornish

A sheikh and his son enjoying the view

Statue of Badr Shakir Al-Sayab a famous Iraqi Basrawi poet

Kids on the Kornish, the signs behind them read "No to rule of the individual, yes to rule of the people"

Abandoned ships

The ferry boat we rented

Another boat

Saddam's former palace in Basrah which is now the local coalition authority HQ

The Kornish

old docks

Temporary bridge on Shatt Al-Arab

IP guarding the bridge

Iraqi traffic police happy to be photographed

Petrol station

Mohammed Sadiq Al-Sadr (whom we nicknamed Papa Smurf) portrait