Wounded Iraqi boy to return home after operations (home is Fallujah)

[Barrett808]

PITTSBURGH - An Iraqi boy wounded in a U.S. mortar attack has completed medical treatment to reconstruct part of his face and will return home this week.

Abdul Hakeem Khalaf, 7, arrived in Pittsburgh in January and underwent three operations to repair facial injuries sustained in April 2004, when an explosion destroyed his home in Fallujah.

The boy's eyelid, eye socket, jaw and cheek were damaged, and he was blinded in his left eye.

Starting in March, he had surgery to reconstruct his lip to make it easier to eat and drink. He was also fitted with a prosthetic left eye and had part of a scar on his face covered with new tissue.

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http://www.centredaily.com/mld/centredaily/15112738.htm

[uppityperson]

1. That's good. 1 down, 2394734578901340821579317 (estimated) to go

number was a random number pulled out of my keyboard for illistrative sake.