“In an Iraqi city where US military offensives levelled entire neighbourhoods in 2004, a hospital has turned to American doctors to treat children with heart problems that residents blame on fallout from the fighting. The decision was not easy for Fallujah, which lies just west of Baghdad and still views the United States with bitterness and extreme distrust. ‘I am an educated man,’ said Firas al-Kubaisy, a Fallujah native and one of the hospital’s paediatric cardiologists. ‘So I know the American people are different from their politicians.'”
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