WORKERS ERECT CONCRETE BARRIERS OUTSIDE TURKISH EMBASSY, 2003-10-20 (photo)

Workers erect concrete barriers outside the Turkish embassy in Baghdad October 20, 2003 a week after a suicide bomber tried to penetrate its defences. Suicide bombers may be bad news for most people, but for a top Iraqi maker of hulking blast barriers the attacks shaking Baghdad mean boom times. Iraq's 77 Company, whose concrete barricades wall off embassies, hotels housing foreigners and at lease one U.S. military base, has seen sales go up 40 percent in the last three months, said administrative manager Herish Mohammed al-Tayar. Picture taken October 20. REUTERS/Jamal Saidi CLH/AA