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| Iraq | |
| Iraqi hospital chief suspected of supplying patient details | |
| 2008-02-15 | |
The US military on Wednesday brought another stunning twist to the plot — that the acting director of a psychiatric hospital could have betrayed his ethics and turned over patient details to insurgents blamed for the attack, which killed nearly 100 people. The questioning of the hospital administrator fits into a wider campaign to confront insurgents’ changing tactics — such as using women as suicide bombers — as they seek to bypass stepped-up security measures and bounce back from losses in recent US-led offensives. But the joint US-Iraqi raids Sunday on the Al Rashad hospital seek to dig deeper into just one deadly day — the Feb. 1 bombings and whether a physician entrusted to care for the mentally disabled could have aided Al Qaeda. | |
| Posted by:Steve White |