The following are pictures I took in Iraq during a five day visit in November 1998, two weeks before the most recent large-scale US bombing campaign. A woman at a farm twenty-five miles outside Baghdad. (Al-Suajin, Iraq) A leukemia victim at Saddam Children¹s Hospital. Because of lack of medicine Leukemia has a 100% mortality rate in Iraq. Doctors claim that occurence of Leukemia has doubled since the Gulf War. Journalists are supervised while working in Iraq. Though our minders are more than willing to show us children suffering in hospitals, we are generally not permitted to show the poor of Iraq. This woman ekes out a living on the streets of Baghdad. My minder quickly (and insistently) led me away from her when I took this picture. Outside the courtyard of the Mousa Al-Kadhem mosque, an important site for Shia Islam. (Baghdad, Iraq, November 1998) A woman at a butcher's shop in Baghdad. Used clothes for sale outside a Baghdad public market. Saddam Hussein watches for sale on the streets of Baghdad. A man relaxes while smoking a water-pipe at a tea-house on Sadhun street, one of the oldest streets of Baghdad. All photographs on swallace.wirephoto.com are copyright Stephen Wallace and may not be republished or redistributed in any form without permission.