Wednesday, 26. March 2003
Topic: W A R - on March 26, 2003 at 7:56:54 AM CET
U.S. seizes Iraqi "military staging area" hospital
The United States said on Tuesday that Marines seized more than 200 weapons, stockpiles of ammunition and over 3,000 chemical suits with masks at an Iraqi hospital which was being used as a "military staging area".
Central Command in Qatar said in a statement that Marines operating in the southern city of Nassiriya -- scene of the fiercest fighting so far in the six-day-old war -- captured about 170 Iraqi soldiers at the hospital. They were not armed.
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