Cloning firm receives requests from Middle East parents

The families of more than 50 Israeli and Palestinian children, some of them killed in the intifada, have appealed to the controversial cloning firm Clonaid to produce copies of their lost relatives, says the company's chief executive.

"I have had many, many requests from parents whose children were killed here in recent violence," Clonaid chief Brigitte Boisselier said.

"Some of them were tiny babies but sometimes they were almost adults - aged 16 to 18."

The requests had come from both Israeli and Palestinian parents.