No one can say exactly how many South Africans are working in Iraq. Some say it could be between 4 000 to 7 000, and includes security guards, pilots, medical staff, TV crews and even South African sniffer dogs. Fink Haysom was sent to Iraq by the United Nations and helped draw up the transitional Iraqi constitution. He was a constitutional adviser at the Codesa talks in the 1990s in South Africa, and has worked in Burundi, Philippines, Somalia and Indonesia.