Death business booms in Baghdad

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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1548&ncid=1548&e=6&u=/afp/20050425/lf_afp/iraqcoffins_050425151644

BAGHDAD (AFP) - Hussein Mohammed never dreamt that roadside bombs and suicide attacks in Baghdad would make him a fortune.


"With every victim that falls to an explosion and suicide attack, the demand for coffins increases and my work flourishes," said the coffin-maker in his tiny shop in the heart of the war-torn capital.


Several people have been killed on the doorsteps of Mohammed's shop on the notorious Haifa Street, now an eerie no-go zone where a few nervous motorists speed past, only too aware that the insurgents' favoured tactics include roadside bombs. American snipers keep watch from the rooftops.


"During the days of Saddam (Hussein), I used to make one coffin a day. Now, I make scores of them and the demand increases with every suicide car bomb that explodes," said the 67-year-old Baghdadi.

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1. OK, so now we know who's better off without Saddam.

It was this guy.

We could have just paid him a few hundred bucks and left Saddam in power and everyone would have been better off.