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People play soccer at a field in front of the al-Doura power plant, with only two of the four steam turbines operational, left, in Baghdad Monday Sept. 29, 2003. The power shortages crippling Baghdad since a U.S. invasion force occupied it in April are feeding the antagonisms of its 5 million people toward the Americans, who are struggling to resurrect an outdated power grid damaged in the war and in months of sabotage that have followed. Restoring electricity carries the biggest price tag _ $5.7 billion _ of any program in U.S. President George W. Bush's request to Congress for $20.3 billion next year for Iraq reconstruction. (KEYSTONE/AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)