IRAQI BOY WOUNDED IN AIRSTRIKE LIES IN A HOSPITAL IN BAGHDAD, 2003-04-06 (photo)

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 REUTERS/Faleh Kheiber GOT/FMS