Famous Face of War’s Pain Looks Back, 6 Years Later

[cmac2012]

I would say 'infamous face' except there is nothing infamous about the young lady, the circumstances perhaps, but not her.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/07/world/middleeast/07photo.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=tha2

MOSUL, Iraq - Until the past week, Samar Hassan had never glimpsed the photograph of her that millions had seen, never knew it had become one of the most famous images of the Iraq war.

"My brother was sick, and we were taking him to the hospital and on the way back, this happened," Samar said. "We just heard bullets.

"My mother and father were killed, just like that."

The image of Samar, then 5 years old, screaming and splattered in blood after American soldiers opened fire on her family's car in the northern town of Tal Afar in January 2005, illuminated the horror of civilian casualties and has been one of the few images from this conflict to rise to the pantheon of classic war photography. The picture has gained renewed attention as part of a large body of work by Chris Hondros, the Getty Images photographer recently killed on the front lines in Misurata, Libya.