Iraqi boy presented with air ticket to Japan for treatment

Iraqi boy presented with air ticket to Japan for treatment

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Mohamad Haytham Saleh, a 10-year-old Iraqi boy, is presented with an air ticket in Baghdad on May 31 to enable him to visit Japan for eye treatment. He will come to Japan with the help of a Japanese sponsor after two Japanese journalists, who planned to take him to Japan, were fatally attacked in an ambush in Iraq.

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