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At 10 p.m., Iraqi troops clambered off seven-ton trucks, sprinting with American Special Forces soldiers around the side of the main building of the hospital, considered a refuge for insurgents and a center of propaganda against allied forces, entering the complex to bewildered looks from patients and employees.&#13;
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Ear-splitting bangs rang out as troops used a gunlike tool called a doorbuster, which uses the force from firing a blank .22-caliber cartridge to thrust forward a chisel to break heavy door locks.&#13;
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Iraqi troops eagerly kicked the doors in, some not waiting for the locks to break. Patients and hospital employees were rushed out of rooms by armed soldiers and ordered to sit or lie on the floor while troops tied their hands behind their backs.&#13;
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In less than an hour, the compound was secure. Most of the Iraqis had their cuffs snipped off and were sitting up along hallways in the hospital's main building. Doctors were back to attending to the most seriously ill, watched by Iraqi and American troops. There were broken doors and windows, but little in the way of more severe damage. And there was only one injury: an Iraqi soldier who accidentally discharged his Kalashnikov rifle, injuring his lower leg.&#13;
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Two companies from the Iraqi 36th Commando Battalion and American Special Forces teams that have been training the Iraqi battalion for the better part of a year joined in the attack on the hospital. The operation was the latest for the 36th Battalion, with men drawn from across the country, including some from Sunni heartland cities like Ramadi and Tikrit where the insurgency is fierce. Iraqis in the unit are eager to demonstrate that they can be a credible fighting force against the insurgents.&#13;
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But unlike some of their past operations -- most notably at a mosque courtyard in Samarra last month where they killed 4 insurgents and apprehended 24 others -- the Iraqi special forces met little resistance this time.&#13;
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A few hundred yards away, an important strategic as well as symbolic battle was playing out: American troops, fighting to secure the western end of the two bridges across the Euphrates River, received intense fire from fortified insurgent positions on the east side of the river. One of the bridges was the scene of the grisly episode on March 31, when Iraqis hung the charred and dismembered bodies of at least two of four American security contractors who had been killed from the bridge's spans.&#13;
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Both the bridges and the hospital are situated on a peninsula formed by the Euphrates as it flows past downtown Falluja, on the east side of the river -- a logical area, American commanders say, for insurgents to fall back if driven from central Falluja.&#13;
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American officials also say the hospital has been a haven for insurgents in what has been a "no-go" zone for American forces for months. And they have made little secret of their irritation with what they contend are inflated civilian casualty figures that regularly flow from the hospital -- propaganda, they believe, for the Falluja insurgents, whom they blame for much of the car bombings, beheadings and other acts of terror in Iraq.&#13;
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In all, there were 160 Iraqis found at the hospital, according to the American Special Forces commander, and at least five people suspected of being foreign fighters, including one from Syria.&#13;
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One they can be sure about: A man who identified himself as a fighter from Morocco was wheeled down the hallway, where he pointed out several others he said were also anti-American fighters from other countries.&#13;
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American troops said they found four or five men at the hospital armed with Kalashnikov rifles, and at least one hand grenade. A poster hanging in an examination room on the first floor displayed scenes of carnage in Iraq and a row of flag-draped American coffins. The writing on the poster encouraged jihad, a translator said.&#13;
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"Cellphones work fine on the first floor, if you want to talk to your family," the American Special Forces commander said. "It's pretty clear they were on the roof spotting."&#13;
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Dr. Rasheed al-Janabi, a general surgeon at the hospital, said many patients had left in the past few weeks in anticipation of an attack, though some, he said, including several wounded by American bombs, were in no shape to leave. "For many days we see on TV that an attack is coming," he said. Only about 30 percent of the Falluja population is left in the city, he said.&#13;
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He denied that the hospital was a haven for insurgents. "Fighters?" he shrugged. "I don't know about fighters."&#13;
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One of the Iraqi soldiers, sitting on a desk nearby, voiced skepticism.&#13;
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                    <text>ARCHIVE IRAQ: REPAIRING COLLECTIVE MEMORY OF THE
ANGLO-AMERICAN INVASION AND OCCUPATION
A hybrid conference on the history and human consequences of
20 years of war and occupation

Program
Session 1
9:00am - 10:20am EST | 4:00pm - 5:20pm AST
 

9:00 Welcome                    

Noor Ghazi, President of Archive Iraq

9:10    Intro to Archive Iraq     

Ross Caputi, Director of Archives at Archive Iraq 

9:20   Keynote     

Prof. Emeritus David Cortright, University of Notre Dame

9:50   Q&amp;A              

Session 2 - Invasion &amp; Occupation
10:35am - 11:55am EST | 5:35pm - 6:55pm AST
10:35   Michael Brill, Princeton University, Department of Near Eastern Studies
“Saddam and Terrorism: Political Claims and Archival Evidence”
10:50   Mohammed Hazm Hamd, University of Mosul, College of Political Science
“The Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq post-2003”
 
11:05   Basma Al-Obaidi, University of Mosul, College of Political Science
“Iraqi Economic Memory After the Anglo-American Invasion of 2003”
11:20   Marwan Salem Al-Ali, University of Mosul, College of Political Science
“A new American Sykes-Picot redraws the map of the Middle East through Iraq’s gate
after 2003”

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11:35   Q&amp;A 

Break - 15 minutes

Session 3 - Consequences and Peace Building
12:10pm - 1:40pm EST | 7:10 - 8:40pm AST
12:10 Dr. Tareq Al-Taie, University of Mosul, College of Political Science
“Security Challenges for Iraqi Nation-building Post-ISIS”
12:25   Dr. Zaynab Quadri, postdoctoral fellow at the Mershon Center for International
“After the Shock and Awe: Private Military Contracting in the Iraq War”
12:40   Dr. Kali Rubaii
“Health Effects of the U.S. Occupation”
 
12:55   Leith Mzahim Khudhyer,
“Prospects for positive peace in Iraq: Between the specificity of the experience and the
universality of the models”
 
1:10     Q&amp;A

Closing Remarks
1:33     Dr. Tareq Mohammed Taib Thaher, University of Mosul, Dean of the College of Political
Science
1:36     Dr. Wisam Nimat Ibrahem Al-Saadi, University of Mosul, Dean of College of Law
           
1:38     Dr. Raqeeb Al-Hamawe, University of Mosul, College of Law
         
1:40     Dr. Tareq Al-Taie, University of Mosul, College of Political Science

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                    <text>Archive Iraq: Repairing Collective Memory of
the Anglo-American Invasion and Occupation
A hybrid conference on the history and human
consequences of 20 years of war and occupation
March 21st, 2023
9am - 1pm EST/ 4pm - 8pm AST
Sponsored by:

Join us at:
The University of Mosul - Second Campus
College of Political Science
Conference Hall
Duke University
Rubenstein Library 249
Carpenter Conference Room
New York University
Department of English
244 Greene Street, Room 105

Archive Iraq
https://archiveiraq.org
University of Mosul
College of Political Science &amp;
College of Law
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Center for Middle East and Islamic Studies,
North Carolina Consortium for Middle East Studies,
Curriculum for Peace, War, and Defense
New York University
Cultures of War and the Postwar research collective
https://culturesofwar.org

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