About 50 Iraqis on Friday became the first looters to be taken to jail since Baghdad fell to US forces last month.

Had Saddam Hussein still been in power, the men would each have had their right hand cut off for theft.

Few in Iraq are sorry he and his reign of terror are gone. But Iraqis now want a new Iraqi-led government to be set up urgently to fill the power vacuum.

Doctors and nurses have not been paid since Saddam Hussein's regime was toppled. Ambulance workers are volunteering their services.
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Security is one major problem in the new Iraq, a lack of basic services is another.

Most civil servants have not worked for weeks. Much of Baghdad is still without electricity.

The streets are littered with uncollected rubbish, and some areas are awash with sewage.

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