Combat hospital shocked into action (harrowing story of Green Zone attack)

[Nordic]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=2027&e=9&u=/chitribts/combathospitalshockedintoaction

(snip)

The two explosions that rocked the International Zone on Thursday killed people shopping for souvenir rugs. They maimed workers sitting down to lunch. They shattered the security of a place perceived as the last secure bastion in Baghdad.
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Moments before the blasts, the staff had been enjoying an uncharacteristically slow day, treating some patients and waiting for an Army helicopter to evacuate others. One intensive care unit was empty.


A minute later, the hospital was filled with burned bodies and dying patients.

(snip)


Two blocks away, U.S. and Iraqi military personnel sifted through the wrecked remains of the bazaar, a four-block street fair that sells Persian rugs, DVDs, knick-knacks and "Operation Iraqi Freedom" T-shirts.
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After the blast, Army medics picked through the smoldering remains of rugs, DVD covers and other debris, looking for body parts and placing them in plastic bags. U.S. Embassy representatives also went to the scene, looking for missing workers.

"Sir, just so you know, we have body parts on top of the stalls here," said one medic as he surveyed the scene with a commander.

`All were burned badly'



Just a wonderful day in George W. Bush's "corporate utopia" known as Iraq. Think Bush has a clue about any of this?

[Nordic]

1. is it just me, or was this completely underreported in the MSM?

I had no idea it was this nasty until I saw this article.

[lasttrip]

2. same here.