Iraqi children look at a U.S. Army soldier during a routine patrol in the Shiite enclave of Sadr City in Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, June 28, 2009. A heavy sandstorm has blanketed Iraq’s capital, Sunday, closing the Baghdad airport and sending dozens of people to the hospital with respiratory problems. Sandstorms are a regular occurrence in Baghdad although it is shielded from the desert by a thin strip of arable land between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. (AP)