Disease ravages Iraq's live stock and source of protein in Iraq, says the general manager of the veterinarian department in the Iraqi Ministry of Agriculture. Since several months ago the disease caused the ruin of more than one million sheep and 150,000 calves. In 1989, two thousand Iraqi dinars would buy approx. It costs twenty thousand dinars to replace a windshield of a Toyota. A taxi driver will drive for sixteen hours a day to feed his family.
Food is a luxury.
I couldn't resist taking this photo of a woman in Jordon. It was not possible to linger taking photo's in Iraq. They are very sensitive in case the photos taken are used for military purposes. Details in photos can help in targeting missiles etc. I would have liked to have taken more time composing shots etc., but each photo was taken with some risk and had to be taken quickly and taken as discreetly as possible.