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KUWAIT (Reuters) - Doctors at a Kuwaiti hospital on Wednesday began treating an Iraqi child who touched hearts around the world after he lost his arms and most of his family during a bombing raid on Baghdad. 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 flew Ali from Baghdad to an airfield in Kuwait, where an ambulance...

CRIPPLED Iraqi youngster Ali Ismaeel Abbas tonight left his Baghdad hospital for lifesaving surgery in Kuwait. The 12-year-old boy, who lost both arms and suffered 60 per cent burns to his body when his home was bombed, was airlifted out of Iraq. America gave the go-ahead yesterday after Tony Blair ordered all the stops pulled out in a bid to save Ali's life. The PM's pledge - made as the Daily Mirror Ali appeal fund topped £140,000 - followed a letter published in the Mirror from Ali's nurse Fatin Sharhah pleading with President Bush and Britain. Fatin explained how he...