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Nicely squelched!
I search every major newspaper in the country. Not one of them carried this story which you can read on the Multi-National Force – Iraq website: http://www.mnf-iraq.com/Featured%20News/Aug/FN050803a.htm
Baghdad , Iraq - One year ago on August 27 the battle for Najaf ended.
A year ago the Najaf Teaching Hospital was closed. It had been looted and its medical equipment destroyed by the Sadr Militia. Now the hospital is open, seeing hundreds of patients per day, brought about by a close partnership of Iraqi doctors and a U.S. team of doctors, engineers, project managers, contractors, and Soldiers and U.S Army Corps of Engineers civilians. When finished, the hospital will house a new magnetic resonance imaging ( MRI) scanner, have computed tomography ( CT) scan services, and have increased specialty surgical services including its first open heart surgical team. The hospital will employ 1,250 people, in an area where good jobs are hard to come by.