Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | ‘We stopped getting orders from Iraq a long time ago’

For 17 years, the pride of the Iraqi navy – two small warships – have been moored in the middle of a Nato naval base in northern Italy, unable to sail because of a UN embargo. The 12 crewmen still scrub the decks daily, but for whom? Sophie Arie is granted a rare audience with Saddam’s forgotten sailors

Heh.