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A group of men tries to stay cool in the shade as they pass time in the Iraqi area of Damascus, Syria, July 14, 2003. Hundreds of thousands of Iraqi Shiite settled in Syria after the first Gulf War and their uprising against Saddam Hussein's Baath Paty in 1991. The latest U.S. led war to topple Saddam Hussein has disrupted the lives and businesses to the point where many shops open to find no customers unemployment runs rampant for the Iraqis. The spire is one of the many Shiite mosques in the area.

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A group of men tries to stay cool in the shade as they pass time in the Iraqi area of Damascus, Syria, July 14, 2003. Hundreds of thousands of Iraqi Shiite settled in Syria after the first Gulf War and their uprising against Saddam Hussein's Baath Paty in 1991. The latest U.S. led war to topple Saddam Hussein has disrupted the lives and businesses to the point where many shops open to find no customers unemployment runs rampant for the Iraqis. The spire is one of the many Shiite mosques in the area.
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