In Iraq, dozens of factories which were involved in military industries have realigned their production for peaceful purposes by the orders of the post-invasion US Administrator Paul Bremer.
What was once a place for making cluster bomb components is now churning out plumbing pipes and gas fittings.
Al Jazeera's Rawya Rageh reports on the turnaround.
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