Botox in Baghdad? Iraqis go for a little nip, tuck

Reconstructive surgery for wounded gives way to cosmetic beauty jobs

BAGHDAD - Dr Abbas al-Sahan's patient wasn't a war victim. She didn't have a scar that needed cosmetic surgery. All she wanted was a cute nose. And she got it.

Speaking after the surgery, bandages and swelling gone, 23-year-old Sarah Saad Abdul-Hameed was ecstatic. Friends who visited "were surprised with the change in my face," she said. "They compared my nose to Nicole Kidman's!"