DAVID O'SHEA : These are uncertain times in Baghdad. The bombing may have stopped but life is still far from normal. Three families once lived in this gaping hole in the ground, 14 people whose lives were extinguished in an instant.
FADELS GRANDSON/ IMAD AHMED JAIMAL AL-NUAIMI: All these people smelled something like a dead body. We are going to find this, I think it's a piece of my neighbour, young girl, aged 20... I think this is the other part of her body, that's all.
DAVID O'SHEA : This is the middle-class suburb of Al Mansour, the site of one American precision bomb that missed its target. The girl they think they're about to find is this man's niece.
UNCLE OF VICTIM: From this place to this place, this is my sister's house.
DAVID O'SHEA : He survived because he lives about a kilometre from here. His family's bodies were found scattered around the neighbourhood.
UNCLE: And the body of my son's sister, we found him in that place, in the back door.
DAVID O'SHEA : The enormous bomb was aimed at Saddam Hussein and his sons who were reported to be eating in this restaurant just next door. But the bomb missed its target completely and the restaurant remains open for business. But for the restaurant's neighbours, it will take a lot longer for life to get back to normal. Most of the people living in this area are professionals - doctors, chemists and teachers. Fadel is a former engineer and this has been his home since he designed and built it in the 1960s. (Question to Othman Al-Emam) This is your original drawings, you drew them?
FADEL SALMAN OTHMAN AL-EMAM: Yes.
DAVID O'SHEA : But now it looks like he may need to come out of retirement to begin the repair job.
FADEL SALMAN OTHMAN AL-EMAM: I was sitting just in this seat...
DAVID O'SHEA : Fadel was relaxing before lunch when he was suddenly blown off his chair.
FADEL SALMAN OTHMAN AL-EMAM: And the flow of dust and glass from this area going to this side. I believe it was more than 15 or 20 seconds, passing, a continuous flow of air.
DAVID O'SHEA : He was only slightly injured and called out through the dust to his daughter, but there was no answer.
NADA FADEL SALMAN AL-EMAM- (Translation): The dirt filled my mouth and my lungs and I couldn't see any more. It was like a storm, which went on for about, maybe, 15 or 30 seconds. After a while, when the storm subsided, I was able to see and get out.
DAVID O'SHEA : His grandson was outside when he heard a noise overhead.
IMAD AHMED JAIMAL AL-NUAIMI: I think one rocket, because I hear and I see it like a long date palm and yellow. And make a sound like an aeroplane came near to the earth - whoosh - and a very, very big explosion without any fire.
DAVID O'SHEA : The Americans had received intelligence that if Saddam was not in this restaurant, he was probably hiding in a house on what is now the other side of the crater. But like the restaurant, it's only slightly damaged. Across the road, Fadel's neighbour, Laith, never suspected that Saddam Hussein may have been his neighbour until after the bombing when he investigated more closely.
LAITH AL-KHALIDA: That house is for some VIP person, or VVIP person. It's not an ordinary house, because if you enter our house, what you see - living room, bedrooms, a kitchen and everything - but in that house, you don't see these things. You all see a presidential desk, a table for a meeting and some beds - two beds or three beds - and you see five lines of telephone.
DAVID O'SHEA : Something else has been troubling Laith - there is still no ground water in the bomb crater, while at his house, they have water just below the surface.
LAITH AL-KHALIDA: If you compare the depth of this hole with that hole, this is nothing. Many people around here, they dig wells, many people here, they all have waters.
DAVID O'SHEA : These are strange times in Baghdad and even a level-headed aircraft engineer like Laith is wondering just what's been going on in his neighbourhood. He seems almost embarrassed to confess his suspicion.
LAITH AL-KHALIDA: Maybe there is a tunnel underneath this. I am not sure of that. Maybe a big - it must be a big one.
DAVID O'SHEA (Question to Al-Khalida) : From the restaurant to his little house maybe?
LAITH AL-KHALIDA: Maybe. Why there is water in here and there is no water in here? I suspect there is some building underneath this - let's say this - or there is a tunnel to somewhere to prevent water to come in here. Let us see how big it is.
DAVID O'SHEA : Saddam Hussein is rumoured to have constructed a network of tunnels under Baghdad, so maybe Laith's suspicion is not as strange as it sounds.
LAITH AL-KHALIDA: It's only a theory, I don't know whether it's right or wrong.
DAVID O'SHEA : He can't put his mind to rest without asking at the restaurant. But there, his tunnel theory is flatly rejected.
WAITER IN RESTAURANT: Was Saddam Hussein here? He's never been here. Whether they took food out, I don't know.
DAVID O'SHEA : But the waiters do admit that just before the bomb went off, a large takeaway order was placed for 100 shawarmas.
WAITER IN RESTAURANT: Armed persons used to come here. Military people. Especially during the war.
DAVID O'SHEA : The middle class residents of Al Mansour benefited from Saddam Hussein's secular rule. It's no surprise then, that facing such uncertain times, many of them are already pining for a return to strong leadership.
LAITH AL-KHALIDA: Saddam Hussein, he was a good leader. There is no-one that say another that, except Bush, because he lead us very well. We need a very strong leader like Saddam Hussein but with a democratic...
DAVID O'SHEA (Question to Al-Khalida) : And humane?
LAITH AL-KHALIDA: Humane, if you say so, yes.
DAVID O'SHEA (Question to Al-Khalida) : Do you not say so? I mean, most...
LAITH AL-KHALIDA: We need the humanity, yes, we need it.
DAVID O'SHEA : But for now, it's the Americans who are running Iraq and they're firmly in control, at least in this part of the city. I'm trying to get across town to the Shi'ite stronghold of Saddam City, normally about half-an-hour's drive from Al Mansour. But with Baghdad's infrastructure in ruins and American roadblocks everywhere, progress is painfully slow. Each car is searched for weapons and ammunition.
US SOLDIER: Where do you get this from?
LAITH AL-KHALIDA: This is for you. It's for - we buy fooding, fooding to eat with this.
US SOLDIER: I tell him we put his money back, but we keep his ammo. No problem.
LAITH AL-KHALIDA: No problem.
US SOLDIER: Hey, cameraman, you got that money going in the car on tape now, right?
DAVID O'SHEA : This is as far as the American soldiers are stationed. Saddam City, where I'm headed, is a no-go area for the troops. Saddam City is an enormous area in the north of Baghdad. It's populated by Shi'ite immigrants from the south with traditional links to Iran. The Shi'ites themselves have renamed it Sadyr City, after a Shi'ite cleric murdered, so the story goes, by Saddam Hussein himself. The former president treated the Shi'ite majority harshly, and now that he's gone and they're free to practise their religion without suppression, the mood is euphoric.
MAN IN STREET (Translation): We ask God that we remain united as one hand, thanks to our religious authority and our imams.
DAVID O'SHEA : This is Sheikh Saeed, a man of growing influence in Sadyr City. With the Americans staying away from here, he's the closest you get to a government official. But his first allegiance will always be to the Shi'ite leadership in the south.
SHEIKH SAEED (Translation): We'll be holding meetings and conferences in the name of the religious authority. We'll also hold rallies. We want your support at these rallies and at the conferences and meetings in order to extend full powers to the religious authority in holy Najaf.
DAVID O'SHEA : For Iraqi Shi'ites, these are exciting times - a chance for a downtrodden, poverty-stricken people to assert their influence in the new Iraq. For Sheikh Saeed, that future is a religious government.
SHEIKH SAEED (Translation): The Iraqi people trust nobody but the clergy. And because we know that the people trust us we appointed ourselves to maintain security and peace in the area.
DAVID O'SHEA : Saeed's followers are now in control of every aspect of life in Sadyr City. At this intersection, men from his mosque are controlling increasingly chaotic traffic flow. They have also taken it upon themselves to run the hospitals and clinics in this area. But the best gauge of their influence on the community is their success in convincing looters to return much of what they took in the first few days after the fall of Baghdad.
SHEIKH SAEED (Translation): We've set up a complete administration. This is the office administration. We administer the incoming and outgoing goods here. The items that come in or go out.
DAVID O'SHEA : Saeed admits that his followers looted a lot of these goods themselves. He explains that it was a pre-emptive move to keep things safe from other opportunist looters. He says a lot of what they took from government storage facilities proved the disregard that Saddam Hussein showed for his people's welfare. These biscuits, for example, donated by UNICEF, had passed their expiry dates.
SHEIKH SAEED (Translation): We don't know why Saddam withheld these biscuits, maybe to feed his fish.
DAVID O'SHEA : The Americans are not even bothering to patrol Sadyr City. It's a political minefield now that the Shi'ites are running the show. Instead, they're happy to allow these natural enemies of Saddam Hussein to handle security on their own.
SHEIKH SAEED (Translation): There are three men standing by over there. And over there, another four are standing by ready to do their duty. Also, over there in that location, another four men are also ready. They're spread out all over the city.
DAVID O'SHEA : All of these men are armed and they're still engaging, almost every night, in battles with the remnants of the Fedayeen Saddam, those mercenary supporters of the former leader.
MAN (Translation): They came here last night in a white Corolla. One man got out, so we captured him. He confessed that they were Saddam Fedayeen.
SHEIKH SAEED (Translation): Thanks be to God, we've captured many Fedayeen and caused several of their attacks to fail, and exterminated them, the so-called Saddam gangs.
DAVID O'SHEA : Shi'ite militias are cleaning up where the Americans left off. I was shown into a room at the back of Saeed's mosque, which held six prisoners of war - three Iraqi Fedayeen and three jihadis from Syria and Jordan. Saeed would not let me film them, but the men I saw were frightened and had been severely beaten. The Shi'ites are clearly dishing out a very tough justice.
SHEIKH SAEED (Translation): Those who killed will be killed and those who didn't will be held to account. As you've seen, we are treating them in a brotherly manner, in an Islamic manner. They'll be handed over to the relevant authorities.
DAVID O'SHEA : The relevant authorities are the religious leaders in the holy Shi'ite city of Najaf. Saeed says that they would never hand their prisoners to the Americans. They fear that they would not get a proper Muslim trial, or could even be sent to Guantanamo Bay in Cuba, like the POWs from Afghanistan. And although they're indebted to the Americans for ridding Iraq of the tyrant Saddam Hussein, the welcome doesn't extend beyond that.
SHEIKH SAEED (Translation): We will not respect the American army as an occupier. We respect it as a liberator. But if the American army becomes an occupier, it will face real Iraqi fighting in defence of this nation.
DAVID O'SHEA : Middle class Al Mansour, however, is a different world. Here, people of all religious persuasions live side by side - Sunnis, Shi'ites and Christians co-existing happily. Fadel and his family are Sunni, as is Laith, but their young neighbours, and Grandma, are Shi'ite. Since the bombing, these families have become even closer.
FEMALE NEIGHBOUR- NAIMAH: It's cold, I'm sick and there's dirt everywhere. My body's had enough. I have no son or daughter.
LAITH AL-KHALIDA: We are your children.
DAVID O'SHEA : The Americans are aware that a prolonged occupation will make them the enemies of all Iraqis. While Sunni Muslims, like Fadel, may feel safer with them here, the Shi'ites are getting restless.
SHEIKH SAEED (Translation): We know America and what they will do. They will bring shameful behaviour to us and they will bring unethical behaviour because that is what symbolises America, really.
DAVID O'SHEA : Sheikh Saeed is willing to give the Americans a little time until things settle down, but then they must leave or else.
SHEIKH SAEED (Translation): You'll find that I'll offer myself and I'll offer my little children. I'll wire them up with explosives and blow up American forces if they don't leave.
DAVID O'SHEA : Not everyone shares that conviction. For Laith's family back in Al Mansour, there are some positives that have come from the American occupation. For the first time, they can admit publicly that they have a relative in America. With my satellite phone, Laith calls his brother in New York.
LAITH AL-KHALIDA: Who's that? Hakki? How are you Hakki? Fine? Hakki... Your mother wants to talk to you.
DAVID O'SHEA : Under Saddam Hussein's rule, Iraqis with family abroad were viewed with suspicion. That is no longer an issue.
MOHAMMAD AL KHALIDA: Remember Saders house? Dads friend His house and the one next door don't exist any more. They were vaporised - houses, people and urniture. The people vaporised. God saved us.
DAVID O'SHEA : But the miracle of their survival has given way to a new reality - trying to rebuild devastated lives, while out on the street, it's every man for himself. The onslaught of looters is just one of many problems confronting them day-to-day.
IMAD AHMED JAIMAL AL-NUAIMI (Translation): Grandpa, that guy was at the window yesterday. The one in front of you, he knocked down the wall. That same guy came here yesterday. This is a criminal. He'll go back the window now.
YOUNG BOY: What's with you?
FADEL'S GRANDSON - IMAD AHMED JAIMAL AL-NUAIMI: You talk too much.
DAVID O'SHEA : With such insecurity the order of the day, even Fadel's school-age grandson finds it necessary to carry a gun. (Question to Al-Nuaimi) You've got one too? Have you had this in your pocket the whole time?
IMAD AHMED JAIMAL AL-NUAIMI: Yeah, this is a personal pistol for me.
DAVID O'SHEA (Question to Al-Nuaimi) : That's the first time I've seen that. So you've been carrying this around the whole time?
IMAD AHMED JAIMAL AL-NUAIMI: Yeah. Must be.
DAVID O'SHEA (Question to Al-Nuaimi) : Why is that?
IMAD AHMED JAIMAL AL-NUAIMI: To be staying alive.
DAVID O'SHEA (Question to Al-Nuaimi) : Self-defence.
IMAD AHMED JAIMAL AL-NUAIMI: Because the American soldiers, they didn't gave me some protection.
DAVID O'SHEA : Life here has been completely turned on its head. All that was familiar has now gone. For Laith, any sense of normality is still a long way away.
LAITH AL-KHALIDA: I need shelter for my mother, my brother and his son and his wife.
DAVID O'SHEA (Question to Al-Khalida) : You also need a new government, you need to sort out the Kurdistan problem.
LAITH AL-KHALIDA: Sure, sure, I need all these things. I need a new government, I need peace, I don't like to live with this all bombing, thieves, robberies - it's not good for us. It's not an ordinary life.
FADELS GRANDSON/ IMAD AHMED JAIMAL AL-NUAIMI: All these people smelled something like a dead body. We are going to find this, I think it's a piece of my neighbour, young girl, aged 20... I think this is the other part of her body, that's all.
DAVID O'SHEA : This is the middle-class suburb of Al Mansour, the site of one American precision bomb that missed its target. The girl they think they're about to find is this man's niece.
UNCLE OF VICTIM: From this place to this place, this is my sister's house.
DAVID O'SHEA : He survived because he lives about a kilometre from here. His family's bodies were found scattered around the neighbourhood.
UNCLE: And the body of my son's sister, we found him in that place, in the back door.
DAVID O'SHEA : The enormous bomb was aimed at Saddam Hussein and his sons who were reported to be eating in this restaurant just next door. But the bomb missed its target completely and the restaurant remains open for business. But for the restaurant's neighbours, it will take a lot longer for life to get back to normal. Most of the people living in this area are professionals - doctors, chemists and teachers. Fadel is a former engineer and this has been his home since he designed and built it in the 1960s. (Question to Othman Al-Emam) This is your original drawings, you drew them?
FADEL SALMAN OTHMAN AL-EMAM: Yes.
DAVID O'SHEA : But now it looks like he may need to come out of retirement to begin the repair job.
FADEL SALMAN OTHMAN AL-EMAM: I was sitting just in this seat...
DAVID O'SHEA : Fadel was relaxing before lunch when he was suddenly blown off his chair.
FADEL SALMAN OTHMAN AL-EMAM: And the flow of dust and glass from this area going to this side. I believe it was more than 15 or 20 seconds, passing, a continuous flow of air.
DAVID O'SHEA : He was only slightly injured and called out through the dust to his daughter, but there was no answer.
NADA FADEL SALMAN AL-EMAM- (Translation): The dirt filled my mouth and my lungs and I couldn't see any more. It was like a storm, which went on for about, maybe, 15 or 30 seconds. After a while, when the storm subsided, I was able to see and get out.
DAVID O'SHEA : His grandson was outside when he heard a noise overhead.
IMAD AHMED JAIMAL AL-NUAIMI: I think one rocket, because I hear and I see it like a long date palm and yellow. And make a sound like an aeroplane came near to the earth - whoosh - and a very, very big explosion without any fire.
DAVID O'SHEA : The Americans had received intelligence that if Saddam was not in this restaurant, he was probably hiding in a house on what is now the other side of the crater. But like the restaurant, it's only slightly damaged. Across the road, Fadel's neighbour, Laith, never suspected that Saddam Hussein may have been his neighbour until after the bombing when he investigated more closely.
LAITH AL-KHALIDA: That house is for some VIP person, or VVIP person. It's not an ordinary house, because if you enter our house, what you see - living room, bedrooms, a kitchen and everything - but in that house, you don't see these things. You all see a presidential desk, a table for a meeting and some beds - two beds or three beds - and you see five lines of telephone.
DAVID O'SHEA : Something else has been troubling Laith - there is still no ground water in the bomb crater, while at his house, they have water just below the surface.
LAITH AL-KHALIDA: If you compare the depth of this hole with that hole, this is nothing. Many people around here, they dig wells, many people here, they all have waters.
DAVID O'SHEA : These are strange times in Baghdad and even a level-headed aircraft engineer like Laith is wondering just what's been going on in his neighbourhood. He seems almost embarrassed to confess his suspicion.
LAITH AL-KHALIDA: Maybe there is a tunnel underneath this. I am not sure of that. Maybe a big - it must be a big one.
DAVID O'SHEA (Question to Al-Khalida) : From the restaurant to his little house maybe?
LAITH AL-KHALIDA: Maybe. Why there is water in here and there is no water in here? I suspect there is some building underneath this - let's say this - or there is a tunnel to somewhere to prevent water to come in here. Let us see how big it is.
DAVID O'SHEA : Saddam Hussein is rumoured to have constructed a network of tunnels under Baghdad, so maybe Laith's suspicion is not as strange as it sounds.
LAITH AL-KHALIDA: It's only a theory, I don't know whether it's right or wrong.
DAVID O'SHEA : He can't put his mind to rest without asking at the restaurant. But there, his tunnel theory is flatly rejected.
WAITER IN RESTAURANT: Was Saddam Hussein here? He's never been here. Whether they took food out, I don't know.
DAVID O'SHEA : But the waiters do admit that just before the bomb went off, a large takeaway order was placed for 100 shawarmas.
WAITER IN RESTAURANT: Armed persons used to come here. Military people. Especially during the war.
DAVID O'SHEA : The middle class residents of Al Mansour benefited from Saddam Hussein's secular rule. It's no surprise then, that facing such uncertain times, many of them are already pining for a return to strong leadership.
LAITH AL-KHALIDA: Saddam Hussein, he was a good leader. There is no-one that say another that, except Bush, because he lead us very well. We need a very strong leader like Saddam Hussein but with a democratic...
DAVID O'SHEA (Question to Al-Khalida) : And humane?
LAITH AL-KHALIDA: Humane, if you say so, yes.
DAVID O'SHEA (Question to Al-Khalida) : Do you not say so? I mean, most...
LAITH AL-KHALIDA: We need the humanity, yes, we need it.
DAVID O'SHEA : But for now, it's the Americans who are running Iraq and they're firmly in control, at least in this part of the city. I'm trying to get across town to the Shi'ite stronghold of Saddam City, normally about half-an-hour's drive from Al Mansour. But with Baghdad's infrastructure in ruins and American roadblocks everywhere, progress is painfully slow. Each car is searched for weapons and ammunition.
US SOLDIER: Where do you get this from?
LAITH AL-KHALIDA: This is for you. It's for - we buy fooding, fooding to eat with this.
US SOLDIER: I tell him we put his money back, but we keep his ammo. No problem.
LAITH AL-KHALIDA: No problem.
US SOLDIER: Hey, cameraman, you got that money going in the car on tape now, right?
DAVID O'SHEA : This is as far as the American soldiers are stationed. Saddam City, where I'm headed, is a no-go area for the troops. Saddam City is an enormous area in the north of Baghdad. It's populated by Shi'ite immigrants from the south with traditional links to Iran. The Shi'ites themselves have renamed it Sadyr City, after a Shi'ite cleric murdered, so the story goes, by Saddam Hussein himself. The former president treated the Shi'ite majority harshly, and now that he's gone and they're free to practise their religion without suppression, the mood is euphoric.
MAN IN STREET (Translation): We ask God that we remain united as one hand, thanks to our religious authority and our imams.
DAVID O'SHEA : This is Sheikh Saeed, a man of growing influence in Sadyr City. With the Americans staying away from here, he's the closest you get to a government official. But his first allegiance will always be to the Shi'ite leadership in the south.
SHEIKH SAEED (Translation): We'll be holding meetings and conferences in the name of the religious authority. We'll also hold rallies. We want your support at these rallies and at the conferences and meetings in order to extend full powers to the religious authority in holy Najaf.
DAVID O'SHEA : For Iraqi Shi'ites, these are exciting times - a chance for a downtrodden, poverty-stricken people to assert their influence in the new Iraq. For Sheikh Saeed, that future is a religious government.
SHEIKH SAEED (Translation): The Iraqi people trust nobody but the clergy. And because we know that the people trust us we appointed ourselves to maintain security and peace in the area.
DAVID O'SHEA : Saeed's followers are now in control of every aspect of life in Sadyr City. At this intersection, men from his mosque are controlling increasingly chaotic traffic flow. They have also taken it upon themselves to run the hospitals and clinics in this area. But the best gauge of their influence on the community is their success in convincing looters to return much of what they took in the first few days after the fall of Baghdad.
SHEIKH SAEED (Translation): We've set up a complete administration. This is the office administration. We administer the incoming and outgoing goods here. The items that come in or go out.
DAVID O'SHEA : Saeed admits that his followers looted a lot of these goods themselves. He explains that it was a pre-emptive move to keep things safe from other opportunist looters. He says a lot of what they took from government storage facilities proved the disregard that Saddam Hussein showed for his people's welfare. These biscuits, for example, donated by UNICEF, had passed their expiry dates.
SHEIKH SAEED (Translation): We don't know why Saddam withheld these biscuits, maybe to feed his fish.
DAVID O'SHEA : The Americans are not even bothering to patrol Sadyr City. It's a political minefield now that the Shi'ites are running the show. Instead, they're happy to allow these natural enemies of Saddam Hussein to handle security on their own.
SHEIKH SAEED (Translation): There are three men standing by over there. And over there, another four are standing by ready to do their duty. Also, over there in that location, another four men are also ready. They're spread out all over the city.
DAVID O'SHEA : All of these men are armed and they're still engaging, almost every night, in battles with the remnants of the Fedayeen Saddam, those mercenary supporters of the former leader.
MAN (Translation): They came here last night in a white Corolla. One man got out, so we captured him. He confessed that they were Saddam Fedayeen.
SHEIKH SAEED (Translation): Thanks be to God, we've captured many Fedayeen and caused several of their attacks to fail, and exterminated them, the so-called Saddam gangs.
DAVID O'SHEA : Shi'ite militias are cleaning up where the Americans left off. I was shown into a room at the back of Saeed's mosque, which held six prisoners of war - three Iraqi Fedayeen and three jihadis from Syria and Jordan. Saeed would not let me film them, but the men I saw were frightened and had been severely beaten. The Shi'ites are clearly dishing out a very tough justice.
SHEIKH SAEED (Translation): Those who killed will be killed and those who didn't will be held to account. As you've seen, we are treating them in a brotherly manner, in an Islamic manner. They'll be handed over to the relevant authorities.
DAVID O'SHEA : The relevant authorities are the religious leaders in the holy Shi'ite city of Najaf. Saeed says that they would never hand their prisoners to the Americans. They fear that they would not get a proper Muslim trial, or could even be sent to Guantanamo Bay in Cuba, like the POWs from Afghanistan. And although they're indebted to the Americans for ridding Iraq of the tyrant Saddam Hussein, the welcome doesn't extend beyond that.
SHEIKH SAEED (Translation): We will not respect the American army as an occupier. We respect it as a liberator. But if the American army becomes an occupier, it will face real Iraqi fighting in defence of this nation.
DAVID O'SHEA : Middle class Al Mansour, however, is a different world. Here, people of all religious persuasions live side by side - Sunnis, Shi'ites and Christians co-existing happily. Fadel and his family are Sunni, as is Laith, but their young neighbours, and Grandma, are Shi'ite. Since the bombing, these families have become even closer.
FEMALE NEIGHBOUR- NAIMAH: It's cold, I'm sick and there's dirt everywhere. My body's had enough. I have no son or daughter.
LAITH AL-KHALIDA: We are your children.
DAVID O'SHEA : The Americans are aware that a prolonged occupation will make them the enemies of all Iraqis. While Sunni Muslims, like Fadel, may feel safer with them here, the Shi'ites are getting restless.
SHEIKH SAEED (Translation): We know America and what they will do. They will bring shameful behaviour to us and they will bring unethical behaviour because that is what symbolises America, really.
DAVID O'SHEA : Sheikh Saeed is willing to give the Americans a little time until things settle down, but then they must leave or else.
SHEIKH SAEED (Translation): You'll find that I'll offer myself and I'll offer my little children. I'll wire them up with explosives and blow up American forces if they don't leave.
DAVID O'SHEA : Not everyone shares that conviction. For Laith's family back in Al Mansour, there are some positives that have come from the American occupation. For the first time, they can admit publicly that they have a relative in America. With my satellite phone, Laith calls his brother in New York.
LAITH AL-KHALIDA: Who's that? Hakki? How are you Hakki? Fine? Hakki... Your mother wants to talk to you.
DAVID O'SHEA : Under Saddam Hussein's rule, Iraqis with family abroad were viewed with suspicion. That is no longer an issue.
MOHAMMAD AL KHALIDA: Remember Saders house? Dads friend His house and the one next door don't exist any more. They were vaporised - houses, people and urniture. The people vaporised. God saved us.
DAVID O'SHEA : But the miracle of their survival has given way to a new reality - trying to rebuild devastated lives, while out on the street, it's every man for himself. The onslaught of looters is just one of many problems confronting them day-to-day.
IMAD AHMED JAIMAL AL-NUAIMI (Translation): Grandpa, that guy was at the window yesterday. The one in front of you, he knocked down the wall. That same guy came here yesterday. This is a criminal. He'll go back the window now.
YOUNG BOY: What's with you?
FADEL'S GRANDSON - IMAD AHMED JAIMAL AL-NUAIMI: You talk too much.
DAVID O'SHEA : With such insecurity the order of the day, even Fadel's school-age grandson finds it necessary to carry a gun. (Question to Al-Nuaimi) You've got one too? Have you had this in your pocket the whole time?
IMAD AHMED JAIMAL AL-NUAIMI: Yeah, this is a personal pistol for me.
DAVID O'SHEA (Question to Al-Nuaimi) : That's the first time I've seen that. So you've been carrying this around the whole time?
IMAD AHMED JAIMAL AL-NUAIMI: Yeah. Must be.
DAVID O'SHEA (Question to Al-Nuaimi) : Why is that?
IMAD AHMED JAIMAL AL-NUAIMI: To be staying alive.
DAVID O'SHEA (Question to Al-Nuaimi) : Self-defence.
IMAD AHMED JAIMAL AL-NUAIMI: Because the American soldiers, they didn't gave me some protection.
DAVID O'SHEA : Life here has been completely turned on its head. All that was familiar has now gone. For Laith, any sense of normality is still a long way away.
LAITH AL-KHALIDA: I need shelter for my mother, my brother and his son and his wife.
DAVID O'SHEA (Question to Al-Khalida) : You also need a new government, you need to sort out the Kurdistan problem.
LAITH AL-KHALIDA: Sure, sure, I need all these things. I need a new government, I need peace, I don't like to live with this all bombing, thieves, robberies - it's not good for us. It's not an ordinary life.