The Hindu : Aid for Iraqi child

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Wednesday, Apr 16, 2003

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Aid for Iraqi child

KUWAIT April 15. Doctors at a Kuwaiti hospital said today they were preparing to treat an Iraqi child who touched hearts around the world after he lost his arms and most of his family in a bombing raid on Baghdad.

Twelve-year old Ali Ismaeel Abbas was also badly burned when a missile hit his home during the U.S.-led war to topple Saddam Hussein, and doctors have warned he would die if he did not receive specialist treatment in the next few days.

A spokesman for Ibn Sina hospital in Kuwait said U.S. forces were expected to fly Ali from Baghdad to an airfield in Kuwait, where

an ambulance would be waiting for him. ``It is already arranged and our people are waiting,'' the hospital director, Abudullatif al-Sahli, told Reuters.

However, a spokeswoman for the U.S military forces in Kuwait said they did not know of any such operation. Nine days ago, the child haltingly told a Reuters correspondent how war had shattered his life.

Little Ali has become a cause celebre after his plight was highlighted in newspapers and on television channels around the world, sparking a flood of fundraising appeals for war victims in Iraq. — Reuters

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