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Reuters: As U.S. Withdraws, Iraqis Still Live In Crisis

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Tags: Iraq, Iraq War, United States

Kareem Hassan Abboud's family of seven share a two room house in a makeshift squatter camp in the mainly Shi'ite district of Chukook in northwestern Baghdad. Sewage muddies the dirt road outside.

The 59-year-old fisherman and his family were forced to move there four years ago when sectarian violence between majority Shi'ites and once dominant Sunnis raged in Iraq, set off after the 2003 U.S.-led invasion that toppled dictator Saddam Hussein.

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