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.