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The badly maimed Iraqi boy who became an icon of civillian suffering in the Iraq war will get the most sophisicated replacement limbs available, his surgeon in Kuwait said Sunday.Doctor Ibrahim Ghaniem said 12 year old Ali Abbas, who lost both arms in a bombing raid on Iraq, was now out of danger. Doctors in Iraq had feared that Aabbas would die before he was airlifted last week to get specialist treatment. 'We are optimistic to provide him with a bio electric hand for the right and a prosthetic for the left, Ghaniem told the British Broadcasting Comany's 'Beakfast with...