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Congressional aides suspected of criminally misusing their access to House computer systems owed $100,000 to an Iraqi politician who is wanted by U.S. authorities and has been linked to Hezbollah, the Iranian-backed Middle Eastern terrorist outfit. Imran Awan and four of his relatives were employed as information technology (IT) aides by dozens of House Democrats, including members of the intelligence, foreign affairs and homeland security committees. The aides’ administrator-level IT access was terminated earlier this month amid a criminal probe by U.S. Capitol Police of a suspected security breach, including an off-site server housing congressional data. The Daily Caller News...

Police are hunting three Iraqi doctors who went on the run in Glasgow after terrorists tried to blow up the city's airport. The men arrived in the UK in May to take part in a Government-backed training programme, but failed to turn up for their flights back to Baghdad earlier this month. They disappeared just two weeks after Bilal Abdullah, an Iraqi-trained doctor who worked at a Glasgow hospital, was arrested and charged with terrorist offences over the airport attack on June 30. He was a passenger in a Jeep driven by Kafeel Ahmed, an engineer who is being treated...

Iraqi MDs Learn Emergency Infant Care Techniques at 2nd ACR Courseby Sgt. Dan Purcell and Pfc. Erik Ledrew, 122nd MPAD BAGHDAD, Iraq -- The 2nd Armored Cavalry Regiment’s Camp Dragoon aid station took on the role of a teaching hospital when six local doctors completed a neonatal resuscitation course March 20. Lt. Col. Kelly A. Murray, regimental surgeon and course program director, teamed with Maj. Linda G. Slayton for the daylong class which taught their Iraqi colleagues emergency resuscitation techniques for newborn infants. This class was a follow up on techniques learned during recent Advanced Life Support in Obstetrics...

<p>CHICAGO (AP) -- Iraqi doctors were forced to cut off ears, falsify reports on torture and participate in other human rights abuses during Saddam Hussein's regime, a survey of physicians there found.</p> <p>Fewer than 10 percent of the 98 doctors surveyed said they had performed such abuses, but their responses indicated they believed human rights abuses by other physicians were not uncommon.</p>

        Maj. Dan Barnes, a surgeon with the 3rd Battalion, 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment (far left), looks on as an Iraqi physician treats a man with chest pains inside a CAROLE bus at a village 30 kilometers southeast of Baghdad. U.S. Army photo by Spc. Michael J. Carden Bus Delivers ‘Medical Care on Wheels'   By U.S. Army Spc. Michael J. Carden / 3 rd Brigade Combat Team YUSUFIYAH, Iraq — During the past 11 months, coalition forces have spent thousands of dollars improving healthcare services to the people of Iraq. With funding from the Coalition Provisional Authority and...

NEWS RELEASEHEADQUARTERS UNITED STATES CENTRAL COMMAND7115 South Boundary BoulevardMacDill AFB, Fla. 33621-5101Phone: (813) 827-5894; FAX: (813) 827-2211; DSN 651-5894   December 27, 2003Release Number: 03-12-65 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CIVIL AFFAIRS SOLDIER EDITS “IRAQI JOURNAL OF MEDICINE” BAGHDAD, Iraq – During the last 10 years, physicians in Iraq have struggled for updated medical information, said Maj. John E. Padgett, the officer in charge of the public health team with the 490th Civil Affairs Battalion, an Army Reserve unit based in Abilene, Texas, who now edits the “Iraqi Journal of Medicine.” The 490th Civil Affairs Battalion supports Task Force 1st Armored...

BAGHDAD — U.S. Army doctors are trying to repair the damage done to Iraqi medicine during the reign of Saddam Hussein when, as one doctor put it, “medicine stopped.” The soldier/physicians held a three-day clinic this week on emergency obstetrics, and there is hope that such professional development classes will become regular events and cover a wide range of topics. “Our doctors are very interested in these courses,” said Dr. Hassan Baker, general director for the ministry of health. “We’ll do as much as we can,” said Dr. (Lt. Col.) Mark Harris, division surgeon for the 1st Armored Division. “I...