Transcript: Profile: US strike on Iraq brings almost total unemployment in Baghdad

BOB EDWARDS
NPR Morning Edition
04-22-2003
Profile: US strike on Iraq brings almost total unemployment in Baghdad

Host: BOB EDWARDS
Time: 10:00-11:00 AM

BOB EDWARDS, host:

These past two weeks in Baghdad without electricity, water, security and telephone lines may affect more Iraqis and cause more widespread distress than the military campaign that toppled Saddam Hussein. NPR's Scott Simon reports from Baghdad that another scarcity also is beginning to take a toll.

SCOTT SIMON reporting:

Since the last days of the war Baghdad has not only been left dry and dark, but idle.

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SIMON: A crowd gathers behind coils of wire outside of the Palestine Hotel, waving ...

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