When U.S.-led forces toppled Saddam Hussein in 2003, Adel Amer celebrated what he thought marked the end of two decades of war and isolation under sanctions that had brought Iraq and its people to their knees. | Reuters
“I was fed up with facing death all the time and seeing my friends either killed or maimed by heavy Iranian shelling all the time,” Amer said.
He took another risk in 1990-1991, when Saddam’s forces invaded neighbor Kuwait, a move that turned Iraq into a pariah. When Saddam’s long dictatorship ended in 2003, Amer threw an extravagant party in his house. He would never have to run for his life again now that U.S. troops had taken control of the country, so he thought.
“I was shocked and devastated fearing the worst will happen to my father, brother and my cousin. I was not ready to live in fear again,” Amer said. “I knew one body from the watch that was still around the wrist bone. It was for my brother Kadhim,” he said.
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