Tuesday, November 16, 2004

Children pay price for US offensive

Ala Barham slumps in his hospital bed and stares blankly into the air in front of him.

Twelve years old and still deeply in shock, he can barely speak.

Ala's family had fled the Iraqi city of Falluja before last Monday's all-out offensive began. He was happily playing with his brother in the garden of their uncle's house in a village outside the city. Then the rocket hit.

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