Word: saddamism
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...Saddam General, surgeons had continued the treatment begun in the military hospital. They inserted a steel rod to stabilize the bones in one of her shattered legs and tried to keep her wounds clean of infection. It was delicate work, done even as their emergency room and hallways began to fill with casualties...
...afraid Saddam's agents would bang through her door and torture her, or strap her to the gurney, mutilate her and carry her off to Baghdad. But even though Iraqi men she did not believe were doctors came into her room and stared down at her as they spoke to her caregivers, she was never beaten. "No one even slapped me," she said...
...member held in this hospital," said U.S. Air Force Major General Victor E. Renuart, Centcom's director of operations. Then, on about March 27 or 28, Mohammed Odeh Rehaief, a lawyer in Nasiriyah, approached some Marines just outside the downtown area and told them of a blond captive inside Saddam Hussein General Hospital...
...commandos, made up of U.S. Army Rangers, Navy SEALS, Marines and Air Force combat controllers, went hard into Saddam Hussein General Hospital. Armed with machine guns, they kicked down doors even as a hospital administrator tried to give them a master key, the doctors would later tell television reporters...
...perimeter the Rangers and Marines took fire, and returned it. But inside Saddam General, there was no resistance--and no one to resist. There were about 200 patients and a skeleton staff, but no soldiers, no militia. The commandos did not know that, their officers would later say, and they treated their assault on the hospital as if it was still being used as a hiding place for heavily armed Iraqi fighters--to do anything else would have been foolish. The commandos shouted that they wanted to know where to find Jessica Lynch, and one of the doctors told them...