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The UN sanctions committee often blocks medicines. At least 100,000 Iraqi children have died because of the embargo. This imam is waiting for this child to die.
Hassan is 13 years old, with third-stage Hodgkin's disease. His father says if he had known that his son's t-shirt read "US Marines", he wouldnąt have bought it.
Children are sent to Baghdad's Mansour hospital from all over Iraq. But Mansour doesn't have enough medicine or facilities to help.
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