Deep below the workshops in Baghdad's cramped, rundown jewelry district, unemployed men spend their days scouring the city's sewer system for the one thing they say can bring them money: flakes of gold.
By MICHAEL S. SCHMIDT and YASIR GHAZI
The New York Times
BAGHDAD — Deep below the workshops in Baghdad's cramped, rundown jewelry district, unemployed men spend their days scouring the city's sewer system for the one thing they say can bring them money: flakes of gold. Several times a month, men desperate for an income descend as far as 15 feet into the dark in search of gold bits that have been washed down the drain by craftsmen cleaning up after a day of etching and molding jewelry...[continued]
