Free Republic

MORE than 100 criminally psychotic patients are roaming Baghdad after looters ransacked the city’s only mental hospital, stealing even the metal doors from patients’ barred cells in the high- security unit. One nurse told how she had found two patients whimpering in the grounds after being raped by marauders who stripped the hospital of beds, equipment and medicines. Four other women were raped after joining the hundreds of patients who either escaped or were released from al-Rashad mental teaching hospital by staff unable to treat them in a building devoid of “everything except the ceilings and walls”. With overstretched American...