Ali Ismail Abbas, 12, wounded during an airstrike according to hospital
sources, lies in a hospital bed in Baghdad, April 6, 2003. Abbas was fast
asleep when war shattered his life. A missile obliterated his home and most
of his family, leaving him orphaned, badly burned and blowing off both his
arms. "It was midnight when the missile fell on us. My father, my mother and
my brother died. My mother was five months pregnant," the traumatised boy
told Reuters at Baghdad's Kindi hospital. "Our neighbours pulled me out and
brought me here. I was unconscious," he said on Sunday. PP03040046
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