The Year in Pictures 2003

PHOTO FOR TIME BY YURI KOZYREV

The Agony of a Child
Ali Ismail, 12, lost both his arms and was severely burned as the result of a firefight in his neighborhood south of Baghdad. A distant aunt tends to him; the rocket blast which mutilated him also took the lives of his mother, father, brother and 11 other relatives

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