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UK treatment for Iraqi toddler

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A three-year-old Iraqi girl blinded and disfigured by a car bomb which also killed her mother has come to the UK for treatment.

Shams Karim's left eye was completely destroyed and her face badly injured in the explosion near a Baghdad market in 2006.

Jim Muir reports.

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