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Sylwia Kapuscinski The Detroit Free Press
"Nursing Home in Baghdad"


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"Pouring Tea" Hasoon Sayeed, 83, who has lived at a nursing home in Baghdad for the past two years, drinks tea on Monday, March 15, 2004. Sayeed used to work as a psychologist in Baghdad. Sayeed says that for the past year conditions at this nursing home have worsened. Seniors now receive only about $5 a month from humanitarian organizations and under Saddam Hussein they used to receive about $80 a month.
 

 

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