
Karima Abed Mohammed, left, and her daughter Noor Essam Ahmed wait outside of Al- Zwyyah Husseinya in Baghdad to see Ayatollah Abdul Aziz Al-Hakim, the Shiite leader of the Supream Council of Islamic Revolution in 2003. They were hoping to see the Ayatollah to help them with money for the girl's operations after she was badly injured in a bombing attack during the war.
(Jonathan Wiggs/Globe Staff)

