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A man with multiple gunshot wounds and whose injuries are too severe to be treated at the al-Kadisia Hospital is wheeled onto the street to be transfered to another hospital. Thora City, formerly known as Saddam City, is a vast slum of 3 million Shiite Muslims, long marginalized and oppressed by Saddam Hussein's regime. The area is a hotbed of the violence and insecurity that has thrived with the absence of authority in the country..Baghdad, Iraq. 06 May 2003..Photo © J.B. Russell
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A man with multiple gunshot wounds and whose injuries are too severe to be treated at the al-Kadisia Hospital is wheeled onto the street to be transfered to another hospital. Thora City, formerly known as Saddam City, is a vast slum of 3 million Shiite Muslims, long marginalized and oppressed by Saddam Hussein's regime. The area is a hotbed of the violence and insecurity that has thrived with the absence of authority in the country..Baghdad, Iraq. 06 May 2003..Photo © J.B. Russell