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...dock of Abu Fulus port, 20 miles south of Basra, Bassem Saghair deftly works the controls of a crane as he unloads air-conditioning units from the hold of the Hussaini. The ship is one of a dozen crowding the waterfront that have sailed from Dubai up the Shatt al-Arab River laden with consumer goods. Saghair, 15, quit school for this job, which pays $360 a month, double the highest salary any Iraqi official earns from U.S.-occupation authorities. "Life is not bad," says Saghair, with a shy smile spreading under the beginnings of a mustache...
...with U.N. sanctions against Iraq lifted and all import and customs controls unenforced, the port has become an unofficial entry point for used cars, electronics, clothes and food. There are no government officials here and no British soldiers from the garrison in Basra. Merchants walk up and down the dock, shouting purchase orders into satellite phones as young men in jeans with AK-47s guard against pirates who prowl the river in motorboats. As in the American frontier a century ago, fortunes are being made almost overnight in Iraq, and with the same lack of control. As Saghair hoists...
...people won't take notice of what I say, so I'll be more free to say nasty things." - By Simon Elegant Sick Ship Sails GREECE A British cruise ship carrying 430 passengers suffering from a highly contagious form of gastroenteritis sailed for Gibraltar after being refused permission to dock at the Greek port of Piraeus. Greek authorities did permit two British doctors carrying emergency medical supplies to board the Aurora, which was carrying a total of 1,900 passengers and more than 800 crew. The vessel was only days into a tour of the Mediterranean when the virus struck...
...rose, many of the industrial garage doors along the loading dock began to close, signalling the end of the business day. At 9 a.m., “J. Bonafede and Sons” was still open and seemed like a good place to start...
We’ll simply have to dock...