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Wondering why Bush wants Aljazeera to leave Falluja? Read
this:
The main hospital apparently has been destroyed by bombing and the second
largest is covered by US snipers - the Iraqis call it sniper alley. So Iraqi
people are not able to get to and from the hospitals. I was working from a
private clinic that had been turned into a hospital, and there was also one
other improvised hospital in a car garage.
The times I have been shot at - once in an ambulance and once on foot trying
to deliver medical supplies - it was US snipers in both cases. It is so
unacceptable to stop medical aid getting through. They could have just asked to
search us.
or this:
The city’s main hospital, on the western bank of the Euphrates, was closed by
the marines. Ibrahim Younis, the Iraq emergency coordinator for Médecins sans
Frontières, said that meant many wounded had died because of inadequate
healthcare.
“The Americans put a sniper position on top of the hospital’s water tower and
had troops in the single-storey building,” said Mr Younis, who visited Falluja
during the fighting two weeks ago. “The hospital had four operating theatres,
which could no longer be used. If they had been working, it would have saved
many lives.”
He said MSF wanted an independent inquiry to determine why the US military used
the hospital as a military position - a violation of the Geneva convention.
...and this is winning Bush votes back home?
Scott A
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