Sharing: Seven Iraqi amputees got new hands in Texas:

The man tied his shoes. Then he untied them just to do it again.

Liath Aqar was one of seven Iraqi small-business owners who received finished prosthetic hands after almost six weeks of surgery to prepare their arms, along with recovery and fittings in Houston.

The men got their prosthetics nine years after agents of Saddam Hussein's government cut off their right hands to punish small-business owners for Iraq's collapsing economy.

He cut off their hands to improve the economy? It was a mad mad place, Saddam's Iraq.