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When he was 11, the Islamic State group seized his town in Anbar province, forcing him to flee to Baghdad, stop his schooling, and sell corn from a street cart.

troops killed his father, whose car was shot at en route to a medical appointment, and he was a toddler when American forces raided his house, looking for Al Qaeda fighters. Louay was born two months after the United States invaded Iraq in March 2003. troops – and deeply impacting a generation of Iraqis. aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln beneath a banner that declared “Mission Accomplished.” Of course, the war would drag on much longer, changing the lives of scores of U.S. Bush famously announced the end of major combat operations in Iraq aboard the U.S. Twenty years ago today, President George W.