U.S. troops burst into Iraqi hospital and attack various doctors

A report from a journalist with the Qatari TV network Al Jazeera in the locality stated that the soldiers attacked various doctors and destroyed hospital equipment in the punitive raid.

For the Arab press in this capital, the U.S. action was an authentic punishment operation in revenge for the death there two weeks ago of four U.S. troops in a car bomb explosion.

The majority of the population of Al Qaem is Sunni, a branch of Islam that is putting up serious resistance to the occupying forces in Ramadi and Falluja, west of Baghdad, and bastions of the insurgency that have not been destroyed despite the superiority of the aggressors’ weapons.

Falluja has been subjected to indiscriminate attacks from U.S. warplanes and tanks in the last two weeks, leading to thousands of fatal and wounded victims among the civilian population, principally children, women and the elderly, as well as the destruction of many buildings.

An EFE dispatch reports that an Iraqi citizen died and a further eight persons, including five U.S. soldiers, were wounded when two car bombs exploded in Mosul, northern Iraq, as the U.S. military command stated in a communiqué.

The five American soldiers are in a stable condition and were transferred to a U.S. field hospital in the north of that Arab nation.

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