Fatima’s Scars, Baghdad, Iraq
This is 16-year-old Fatima Mathoob (her sister Zaineb, 17, stands in the background), who was standing near the window of her family’s Baghdad, Iraq apartment shortly after the U.S. bombing campaign began March 20, 2003. A bomb struck nearby, blew out the windows of the apartment building, and struck her in the face with glass. 
Her sister Amal, 14, kept a diary of the early days of the war, and parts of it have been published by the Christian Science Monitor: “Now I am sitting in the corridor in front of our apartment with my sisters and mother. The sound of bombing is getting stronger and stronger…. Then it turns quiet again ... and we don’t know when Bush’s storm hits again. Fatima thinks that we are living and dying at the same time, but how long will it be like this?”
Scott Peterson, with the Christian Science Monitor, has followed the family since 2003. Fatima was recently married, then divorced. She says she’s hurt, but hopeful.