US forces release Baghdad mental hospital chief

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Source: reuters

BAGHDAD, April 16 (Reuters) - U.S. forces have released the head of a psychiatric hospital in Baghdad after holding him for two months on suspicion of supplying mental patients to al Qaeda for suicide bombings, a health official said on Wednesday.

"The U.S. forces released him yesterday after taking a bond from me to bring him any time they need him," said Ali Bustan, head of the health directorate for the eastern half of Baghdad.

Sahi al-Maliki, acting director of the al-Rashad psychiatric hospital in eastern Baghdad, was held by U.S. forces in a raid on the hospital in February, 10 days after two bombings in popular pet markets killed 99 people and wounded more than 150.

U.S. and Iraqi officials said at the time they believed the bombings were carried out by female teenaged mental patients who became unwitting suicide bombers in an operation planned by al Qaeda Sunni Arab militants.

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