CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR (voice-over): War and rebuilding are the tasks of adults, but both impact children. In Mosul, these children play outside of a former palace of Saddam Hussein. Their families can't afford to rent a house in the northern Iraqi city, so they're squatting there. Not far away, a young boy eyes the villa, where the Hussein brothers were killed, as U.S. troops begin to demolish it, in part to prevent people from squatting there too. Some children in Baghdad, who do have a home, watch from their balcony as a parade of U.S. troops rolls by in a Humvee. And in southern Iraq, Shia Muslims pray, while a young boy holds a photo of a late Muslim sheikh. The faithful here, their imam, boasts that the Americans will be driven out of these holy cities.
Impact of Post-War Iraq on Children