Medical treatment for bomb tips

March 4, 2007

How medics in Iraq are treating citizens in exchange for intelligence:

Medics treated an electrical burn on an Iraqi man injured doing home wiring. In return, he passed along a tip: Powerful local clan leaders have ordered a fresh crop of roadside bombs against U.S.-led forces.



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1 Anonymous March 5, 2007 at 12:56 am

Actually, it’s the other way around, from the article.

It looks like they were treating his wound, and out of generosity he volunteered the information. This wasn’t, then, quid-pro-quo, this was information given in appreciation for his care.

Winning hearts and minds, and all that.

GruntDoc

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