Mustafa Ahmed, 11, who was wounded by an American bomb during the 2003 U.S. invasion, is fitted for a new prosthetic lower leg at the Hospital for Physiotherapy on December 13, 2011 in Baghdad, Iraq. Iraq's health care system remains in shambles following two decades of war and economic sanctions. Following the 2003 U.S. invasion, thousands of physicians fled the country while others were killed. Some physicians have since returned but there is still a critical shortage of doctors. Iraq is transitioning nearly nine years after the 2003 U.S. invasion and subsequent occupation. American forces are now in the midst of the final stage of withdrawal from the war-torn country. According to the Iraq Body Count, more than 100,000 Iraqi civilians have died from war-related violence.
(Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)
Date created: 13 Dec 2011
> GDP per capita: $2,531.15 (66th lowest)++++++++++++++++
> Adult literacy rate: 74.1%
> Adult mortality rate per 1,000: 291
Nearly nine years after the U.S. began combat operations in Iraq, violence continues to ravage the capital city of Baghdad. Intermittent suicide bombings, random gunfire, roadside bombs and other attacks still occur throughout the city. In the past two weeks, dozens of Iraqi civilians have been killed in separate events.
Yes, this is what the US war of aggression and occupation achieved: the capital city is the most dangerous in the world, and the adult mortality rate is exceptionally high. And the child in the photo was two or three years old when the US bombed his home.
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