US is removing troops who were providing security in Iraqi hospitals

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US military targeted in more guerrilla attacks in Iraq

<snip>Meanwhile in Baquba, 60 kilometers (40 miles) northeast of Baghdad, US troops were pulled from guard duties outside the town's hospitals after a rash of attacks, most notably a grenade blast on Saturday that killed three soldiers posted by the children's hospital, medical sources said.

The US military told the director of the general hospital that it was no longer safe for his soldiers to be on guard duty and he was replacing them with Iraqi police, the sources said.

A tank guarding a post by the general hospital was hit late Sunday by a rocket-propelled grenade, witnesses said.

Witnesses said Wednesday that US troops also came under mortar fire overnight at their airbase on the town's perimeter, and responded with 15 to 20 rounds of ammunition.

Reports of mortar salvos have become a daily occurrence in the town.

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1. From Bring 'em on to no no shoot your own damn people

that was quick.