The Iraq Conflict: Victims - Focusing on Ali, but there are thousands of children like him.(News) From: The Independent (London, England) | Date: April 12, 2003| Author: | COPYRIGHT 2003 Independent Newspapers (UK) Ltd. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

"WHY DO you all want to talk to Ali? There are hundreds of children suffering like him, and we are getting more every day," asked Dr Moufak Gabriel, the hospital director, as we arrived to see Ali Ismail Abbas, the injured 12-year-old boy who has become the centre of a British media frenzy.

All around him at the Saddam General, the worst-equipped hospital in Baghdad's most violent slum, Saddam City, there was pandemonium. Staff were barricading the gates as dozens of people, some ill, some seemingly healthy, struggled to get in. The danger lay beyond them - groups of men with ...