Soldiers from Mosul attack flown to Ramstein

[babylonsister]

Soldiers injured in Iraq attack flown to U.S. air base in Germany
By Associated Press, 12/22/2004 10:23


RAMSTEIN AIR BASE, Germany (AP) A group of U.S. soldiers wounded in a deadly insurgent attack on a base in northern Iraq arrived at an American air base in Germany on Wednesday for treatment at a military hospital.

A C-140 transport plane carrying some 50 patients most of them injured in Tuesday's attack in Mosul touched down at about 4 p.m. at the Ramstein Air Base after a flight from Balad, north of Baghdad.

Ramstein spokesman Maj. Mike Young said all but 12 or 13 of the patients would be taken off the plane on stretchers.

''They're not perhaps critical, but they need to be on a litter'' for transfer to the nearby Landstuhl Regional Medical Center, he said.

Tuesday's attack on a base in Mosul killed 22 people and injured 72. Fifty-one of the injured are U.S. military personnel, the U.S. military command in Baghdad said Wednesday.

The hospital was expecting at least eight critical care patients from the group arriving Wednesday, Landstuhl spokeswoman Marie Shaw said ahead of the plane's arrival.

Landstuhl was gearing up to treat the victims, most of whom were suffering from broken bones and shrapnel wounds.

''We have to see what we need,'' Shaw said.

http://www.boston.com/dailynews/357/world/Soldiers_injured_in_Iraq_attac:.shtml

[leftchick]

1. One that did not make it... (graphic)

And very, very sad....




:( and fuck bush*!