First, Do No Harm
Mar 27th, 2006 at 6:19 am by Susie
Imagine the kind of rage that leads a doctor to do this - and what we’ve done to get him to that point:
BAGHDAD, March 26 — A doctor has admitted killing at least 35 Iraqi police officers and army soldiers by giving them lethal injections, reopening their wounds or engaging in other deadly acts while they were being treated at a hospital in the northern city of Kirkuk, according to Kurdish security sources and Kurdish television.
Kurdish television broadcast on Sunday what it said was the doctor’s taped confession, in which he told police that he sympathized with the radical Sunni Arab insurgent group Ansar al-Sunna. He said that the group paid him to kill the men and that he did it because “I hate the Americans and what they’ve done to Iraq.”
“I injected more than 35 policemen and soldiers, including officers and some who were slightly injured,” the doctor, identified by a Kurdish security official as Luay Omar Taie, said in the taped statement. “I used to stop the breathing machines or cut the electricity in the operations room or reopen the wounds.”
