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By Ahmed Rasheed BAGHDAD (Reuters) – When U.S.-led forces toppled Saddam Hussein in 2003, Adel Amer celebrated what he thought marked the end of two decades of war and isolation under sanctions that had brought Iraq and its people to their knees. “I was dancing like crazy and couldn’t believe Saddam was gone. I felt like a bird unleashed from a cage,” Amer said. But it turned out to be just the beginning of another era of conflict and chaos that saw an insurgency, the rise of Islamist violence and sectarian strife that deepened the suffering of Amer, now 63, and his family. Amer’s troubles beg…