Baghdad's last refuge for orphaned and traumatised children is in danger of closing later this month when it finally runs out of funds. The man who runs it says he will take the children, many of them orphaned by the violence, into his own home rather than see them on the streets. His co-worker has already been murdered by a death squad.
In the second in a series of three films about the ordinary lives of people in Baghdad, GuardianFilms and ITN look at what has happened to the city's most vulnerable children.
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To mark the fourth anniversary of the invasion of Iraq, GuardianFilms and ITN have produced a series of films that look at ordinary daily life for Iraqis in 2007, using local Iraqi journalists and directors to bring us these shocking portraits of a tortured nation.
In the first of three films, we hear how the man who pulled down Saddam's statue on that iconic day in 2003 now bitterly regrets it.
His hands were bleeding and his eyes filled with tears as, four years ago, he slammed a sledgehammer into the tiled plinth that held a 20ft bronze statue of Saddam Hussein. Then Kadhim al-Jubouri spoke of his joy at being the leader of the crowd that toppled the statue in Baghdad's Firdous Square. Now, he is filled with nothing but regret.
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