Iraqi amputees football team seeks healing as goal ...Kuwait

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Iraqi amputees football team seeks healing as goal
As a seven-year-old boy in Baghdad, Mohamed Ali dreamt of becoming a goalkeeper – until a car bomb in the central Tahrir Square ripped away his left arm. The child had become another casualty of the sectarian blood-letting that raged in Iraq in the years after the 2003 US-led invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein. "I was deprived of playing football," he said, recalling the traumatic event of 2007 that also ended his time with the junior football team of the Air Force Club in Baghdad. Today, at age 22, Ali is a member of an all-amputee football team, made up entirely of players who lost arms or legs in Iraq's many years of war and turmoil. "The creation of this team b

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