| The commander of a U.S. military hospital said Thursday she hopes many of those wounded and sent here for treatment after a suicide bombing on an American base in northern Iraq will be able to return to the United States for Christmas. Doctors at the Landstuhl Regional Medical Center have treated some 35 soldiers and civilians wounded in an insurgent attack Tuesday at a dining facility in the northern city of Mosul. Many have suffered serious injuries but all are expected to survive, said hospital commander Col. Rhonda Cornum. "We don't have anybody we don't expect to recover," she said. The blast killed 22 people, including 14 U.S. service members, four American civilians, three Iraqi National Guard members, and one "unidentified non-U.S. person." Military officials have said it's not yet known whether that final death was the suicide bomber. |