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Hooda (right), 27, Maha (center), 17, and Yusef Dawood (left), 16, are mentally handicapped Iraqis who live with their father Sa'adoon, mother and 3 other siblings in a homeless community at the former Air Force headquarters in Baghdad, Iraq on Sunday, Oct. 22, 2006. Hundreds of Iraqi families who cannot afford elevated post war housing costs have taken up residence in the abandoned air force base, making do with what they can.

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Contained in galleries: Iraq War 2003-2007

Hooda (right), 27, Maha (center), 17, and Yusef Dawood (left), 16, are mentally handicapped Iraqis who live with their father Sa'adoon, mother and 3 other siblings in a homeless community at the former Air Force headquarters in Baghdad, Iraq on Sunday, Oct. 22, 2006. Hundreds of Iraqi families who cannot afford elevated post war housing costs have taken up residence in the abandoned air force base, making do with what they can.