"Every woman is afraid," said Sarah Alak, a 22-year-old computer engineering student at Basra University.

In the science faculty at Basra University, 80 percent of the students are women.

Hussein's 17-year-old daughter, Rand Abdel-Qader, was a student at Basra University.

Drive around Basra and see what looters have done to just one institution: the 12,000-student Basra University.

Every morning, the professors and students come to Basra University and watch one more donkey pull one more load of loot from the place.

He went on to study law at Basra University and became and acting member of the Governing Council.

"The leaving of the Americans is a very big problem for us," said a 23-year-old medical student from Basra University, who said his name was Ali.

His oldest child is in her last year studying biology at Basra University, where one son just entered agricultural school.

Looters stole ancient artifacts and destroyed buildings at Basra University, for instance, only days after British troops reached the area in 2003.

He now teaches literary criticism at Basra University.