Mohamad Haytham Saleh

After landing at Narita airport, Mohamad Haytham Saleh and his father, Haytham, 32, were taken to Numazu, Shizuoka Prefecture, where he is to be treated.

Officials of the Numazu Rotary Club are accompanying the boy and his father at the request of the slain journalist, Shinsuke Hashida, 61.

Mohamad, the son of a taxi driver Hashida met in Iraq, sustained a serious injury to his left eye from broken glass sent flying during a U.S. military operation last November in Fallujah.

Although he underwent surgery twice, he lost the vision in his eye.

The Japan Times Weekly: June 12, 2004
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