OneWorld.net - Saddam Will Miss Old Buddy Reagan

"Seventeen years after Saddam Hussein gassed her home in Hallabja, packed mud and a canvas tarp still serve as the roof of Aftow Khafood's home in Benslawa refugee camp. "We would like to improve our situation," she says. "When it rains, we are afraid our house will collapse over our heads. We want to return to our homes and live like others in normal houses."

"As the eulogising of President Reagan pour in, Khafood says the only international help she has got has come from the United Nations, which has provided her family with toilet facilities and 200 cinder blocks, which she stacked into makeshift walls."