August 8, 2005. This is not the first sand storm in Iraq. Sand making it's way into the lungs can be like cement and literally choke of the people who can not cough out the particals at the realtiy coughing invites more inhalation with deeper breaths before the cough. It's unfortunate weather.

Caption :: A woman and child make slow progress through the blowing dust of a massive sandstorm in Baghdad. The sandstorm blocked out the sun for most of the day and closed airports across the country. The Yarmouk Hospital in Baghdad treated crowds of people young and old who fell victim to the storm�s suffocating dust with oxygen masks and medicine.