Wounded Iraqis cope with lifelong scars
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For generations to come, Iraqis will have to cope with the physical and mental scars of tens of thousands of people severely injured in the violence of the past four years.
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Four-year-old Seif Ibrahim lost his hands and most of his skin when a suicide bomb detonated near his Baghdad home last year. The disfigured boy has since found a way to eat potato chips, picking them up with his wrist stumps and cramming them into his mouth.
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NAJAF, Iraq -- Militants had just kidnapped and dragged his ailing 80-year-old father through the streets. They also beat his brothers until they collapsed. Forty of his men were killed, and several were beheaded.
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More than 10,000 US military personnel have been wounded in Iraq, Pentagon figures show.
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In the early days of the Iraq war, on the last day of his life, Army Sgt. 1st Class Paul R. Smith showed valor that no U.S. soldier has matched in Iraq. Smith&#039;s men came under attack as they mopped up after the capture of Baghdad&#039;s airport. The sergeant braved hostile fire to evacuate three wounded soldiers and single-handedly killed dozens of enemy soldiers before being killed himself as he covered the evacuation of other wounded Americans.
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AHMAN Mohammad, his chubby, 20-year-old face scarred with burn marks, his arms charred to the bone, lies on a blood-stained bed at Karkh Hospital and tries to make sense of the dayâs horror, etched in his mind like a Hieronymus Bosch painting.
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SULAIMANIYA, Iraq  - Fed up with car bombs and   death threats, Lazem Hamid, an Iraqi doctor from one of   Baghdad's most violent neighborhoods, decided one day to pack   his bags and take his family north to Kurdistan.
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His gut was twisted into a knot, his head pounding, his leg searing in pain from a gunshot wound. Ibrahim Mohamed Doud, a village elder in an African tribe, remembers the day an
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N'DJAMENA  - Charles de Gaulle Avenue, the Chadian capital's main business street, bears the scars of war.
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In a tiny village at the northern tip of Iraqi Kurdistan, some Christian refugees who fled Baghdadâs violence are experiencing a kind of homecoming.
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Sgt. Ryan Kahlor has the same nightmare every time, a vision of walls painted in blood and fat, and men on top of houses, throwing pieces of Marine's bodies off rooftops. It's a vision he can't shake, because he lived through it while deployed to Iraq last year.
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Iraqi actors hoped the fall of Saddam  Hussein would herald a new era of artistic freedom. But they  have seen their dreams destroyed by violence.
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In a terrifying videotape, 10-year-old Georgy Farniyev sat near a bomb, his hands behind his head and his face a mask of misery. He looked certain to die, but survived through luck, self-possession beyond his years and enough grit to pull shrapnel out of his own arm.
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Virtual Iraq is a simulation created to treat Iraq war veterans suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder.
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By SAMEER N. YACOUB and JAMAL HALABY  BAGHDAD, Iraq - A former Kurdish rebel testified Monday he temporarily lost his sight in a chemical weapons attack by Saddam Hussein's forces nearly two decades ago. He removed his glasses so the court could see his swollen eyes.
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The dream of a free Iraq is alive, but 22 months into the U.S.-led fight for their native country, Iraqi Americans speak of how complicated and painful the equation has become.
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The war has created 2 million Iraqi exiles. An intimate look at their new lives -- and why the U.S. should let more in