Also, today I read that American media have not published or shown photos of the boy who's lost both his arms. Is this true?

No. The US is being very self-congratulatory via the media here, about how much effort we're putting into getting that boy to a better hospital. But we didn't hear anything in our news about him until after the story about him appeared in the British media.

Re: the flags... they didn't drape the Iraqi flag over the statue's face the way they did with the US flag. They hung it around the statue's neck like a necktie. I saw the footage of it on TV.