Since Saddam's Fall, Baghdad Coffin-maker's Business is "Booming"....

[leftchick]

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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

Death business booms in Baghdad

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"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.


With a daily fare of bombs and shootings up and down the country, it is rare that a day passes in the capital with no one falling victim to violence.

[LibDemAlways]

1. So the only business that's booming is

the death business? I'm surprised the American funeral industry hasn't muscled its way in. But then again, the Iraqis aren't interested in and can't afford the ultra deluxe super comfy boxes that they peddle here. And those bombing victims can't be prettied up for a "viewing" which isn't part of the culture anyway. Too bad. They'll have to be content to deal with the corpses of American soldiers that continue to arrive by the planeful.