US troops broke every door in Iraq hosp. ,stole food & supplies

[donsu]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=655&e=1&u=/oneworld/20041214/wl_oneworld/6573995391102990676


U.S. Military 'Obstructing' Medical Care in Iraq


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Iraqi doctors at many hospitals have reported raids by coalition forces. Some of the more recent raids have been in Amiriyat al-Fallujah, about 10km to the east of Fallujah, the town to which U.S. forces have laid bloody siege. Amiriyat al-Fallujah has been the source of several reported resistance attacks on U.S. forces.

The main hospital in Amiriyat al-Fallujah was raided twice recently by U.S. soldiers and members of the Iraqi National Guard, doctors say. The first time was November 29 at 5:40am, and the second time was the following day, said a doctor at the hospital who did not want to give his real name for fear of U.S. reprisals.

In the first raid about 150 U.S. soldiers and at least 40 members of the Iraqi National Guard stormed the small hospital, he said.

They were yelling loudly at everyone, both doctors and patients alike, the young doctor said. They divided into groups and were all over the hospital. They broke the gates outside, they broke the doors of the garage, and they raided our supply room where our food and supplies are. They broke all the interior doors of the hospital, as well as every exterior door.

He was then interrogated about resistance fighters, he said. The Americans threatened to do here what they did in Fallujah if I didn't cooperate with them, he said.
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guess now that's the new word for being destroyed. you've been Fallujahed.

are we still proud.

[Mari333]

1. We just keep winning hearts and minds, dont we...n/t

[goclark]

2. Bush is creating the army in his own image

This is the army that Bush wants to take over.

He would be proud that our precious soldier are doing things like this, to Bush and his thugs this is business as usual.

Someone is giving them the orders to do this but watch who takes the blame.

[bloom]

3. In Iraq, the US does eliminate those who dare to count the dead

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1366349,00.html


"Eliminating doctors
The first major operation by US marines and Iraqi soldiers was to storm Falluja general hospital, arresting doctors and placing the facility under military control. The New York Times reported that "the hospital was selected as an early target because the American military believed that it was the source of rumours about heavy casual ties", noting that "this time around, the American military intends to fight its own information war, countering or squelching what has been one of the insurgents' most potent weapons". The Los Angeles Times quoted a doctor as saying that the soldiers "stole the mobile phones" at the hospital - preventing doctors from communicating with the outside world.

But this was not the worst of the attacks on health workers. Two days earlier, a crucial emergency health clinic was bombed to rubble, as well as a medical supplies dispensary next door. Dr Sami al-Jumaili, who was working in the clinic, says the bombs took the lives of 15 medics, four nurses and 35 patients. The Los Angeles Times reported that the manager of Falluja general hospital "had told a US general the location of the downtown makeshift medical centre" before it was hit.

Whether the clinic was targeted or destroyed accidentally, the effect was the same: to eliminate many of Falluja's doctors from the war zone. As Dr Jumaili told the Independent on November 14: "There is not a single surgeon in Falluja." When fighting moved to Mosul, a similar tactic was used: on entering the city, US and Iraqi forces immediately seized control of the al-Zaharawi hospital."

[nostamj]

4. "Fallujah"....

the new "F" word. ugh.

[JohnyCanuck]

5. You'd almost think they wanted to drive the population

into the ranks of these people.

www.informationclearinghouse.info/article7468.htm

[mike_c]

6. deliberately harrassing a civilian hospital is a war crime....

Not that the "quaint" Geneva Conventions mean squat to the war criminals we've unleashed on Iraq.

Iraq will be to the U.S. what Afghanistan was to the Soviets, with a resistance that will similarly garner much international support but with even longer and more expensive supply lines. Iraqis have long memories.