Wounded Iraqi Girl Gets New Chance at Life

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A 5-year-old Iraqi girl was riding with her father through the city of Heet in the fall of 2006 when an explosive bullet fired by a U.S. soldier penetrated the roof of their car and struck her head.

The bullet shattered bones and ruptured her cerebral membrane. After four operations in Iraq, Noora Afif Abdulhameed needs a prosthetic replacement for skull bone, as well as plastic surgery.

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Wounded Iraqi Girl Gets New Chance at Life

She'll be getting both in Portland this spring, thanks to the efforts of a group of southern Maine residents who have gotten commitments of free treatment and surgery at Maine Medical Center.

Now the group, working with a national organization called No More Victims, is hoping to raise...

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