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2008-04-24 Iraq

U.S.-Iraqi troops raid hospital in Baghdad

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Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2008-04-24 11:51|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 This reeks of the kind of story that Bilal Hussein used to get published. It is based on the words of one person, there is no confirmation, it involves wrongdoing by troops.

Interestingly is says "Iraqi-US forces" .. so which was it? Iraqi or US? Most recently US troops wouldn't go inside, we would be outside providing moral support/cheerleading/calling in air if needed. Last time I looked there was no "Iraqi-US Army".

Posted by crosspatch 2008-04-24 12:46|| 2008-04-24 12:46|| Front Page Top

#2 pure iraqi/paleo BS.

Posted by RD">RD 2008-04-24 12:50|| 2008-04-24 12:50|| Front Page Top

#3 Why not. Some months back there was suspicion the mentally retarded were being used as unwitting suicide bombers. Where better to find the mentally retarded than a mental hospital and what better way to select the victims than to have high level officials of the hospital do it.

Posted by ed 2008-04-24 13:16|| 2008-04-24 13:16|| Front Page Top

#4 caused material damage inside the hospital

Prolly tracked sand all over the carpet and left fingerprints on the windows, the slobs.

Posted by SteveS 2008-04-24 13:49|| 2008-04-24 13:49|| Front Page Top

#5 IIRC the Health Ministry is/was controlled by the Sadrists. They used ministy buildings as bases/supply dumps.

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Posted by Frozen Al 2008-04-24 14:01|| 2008-04-24 14:01|| Front Page Top

#6 "IIRC the Health Ministry is/was controlled by the Sadrists. "

Correctomundo. The Health Ministry was Sadr's bailiwick. this is from 2006 but is informative (if a puff piece designed to play Sadr up to be bigger than he apparently is):

His political group, for example, controls the Health Ministry and has used it to harbor death squads, infiltrate hospitals and punish al-Sadr's enemies, says Ayad al-Samarrai, the deputy chairman of the Iraqi Islamic Party, a Sunni group.

So any operations against Health Ministry operations would be seen as a move against Sadr. Again, this is probably part of the Iranian strategy to duplicate the blueprint used by Hezbollah and Hamas to provide services to the people to win their hearts. How can you hate the people who provided the doctor that delivered your child or saved a relative's life? It is an Iranian MO to control basic humanitarian services in their area of interest. It gives a secondary benefit of making their infrastructure immune to attack. An attacker looks bad hitting doctors and hospitals.

Posted by crosspatch 2008-04-24 20:56|| 2008-04-24 20:56|| Front Page Top

#7 An Iraqi army force, backed by U.S. troops, raided al-Rashad psychological hospital and arrested all its staffs, Qassem Abdul Hadi told Aswat al-Iraq Voices of Iraq (VOI). The forces also arrested the patients and caused material damage inside the hospital, he also said.

the pure BS that I was referring to:

No way would American Forces arrest ALL patients and Staff unless the 'Hospital' had only fugitive combatant patients AND al-Sadr Dr's, Nurses and techs(staff).

or ... "psychological hospital" lost somthin somthin in translation.

Or shutting down the entrance & exits of the Hospital for a period during an inspection is translated as everyone was "arrested" meaning "not free to leave or enter the Hospital during the inspection"

But no way are American Forces, a 'Hospital Rampaging and Damaging Org'.

Posted by RD">RD 2008-04-24 21:43|| 2008-04-24 21:43|| Front Page Top

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