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US forces storm Iraqi hospital

BAGHDAD -- Commandos with the Ministry of Interior's Special Police Force cordoned off the al-Zaharawi Hospital in the western Shefa neighbourhood of Mosul on Thursday, after getting information that resistance fighters were using the hospital to treat their wounded, said Lieutenant Colonel Paul Hastings with Task Force Olympia. US forces from the 1st Battalion, 24th Infantry Regiment secured the outer area around the hospital, while Iraqi troops stormed the inside, detaining three individuals suspected of being participants in terrorist activities, he said. Posted by Editor at November 19, 2004 11:20 AM