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Amar: Alone in the world

Amar was orphaned in an Iraqi bombing so who is the woman claiming he is her son?

He was known as 鈥渢he little boy who lost everything鈥. In 1991, Amar Kanim鈥檚 disfigured face was shown on newspaper front pages around the world, an innocent young victim of Saddam Hussein鈥檚 brutal regime. His entire family, it was reported, had died in a napalm attack. The British politician Emma Nicholson found him 鈥渁lone in the world鈥 during a visit to an aid camp. She took him to the UK. He was, the world assumed, an orphan. So who was the woman claiming he is her son?

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