In this initial stage of the attack, the US appears to be * targeting the city’s hospitals=. On Saturday U.S. forces bombed and * destroyed a small hospital in the center of the city. Yesterday US forces took over the city’s main hospital claiming it was being used for propaganda purposes. U.S. military officials told the Times said the hospital was the main source of so-called rumors of heavy casualties in Fallujah. In addition, a medical supplies storeroom has also been damaged in a bombing over the weekend. The head of Fallujah’s main hospital said he asked the US forces for permission to allow doctors and ambulances to go inside the main part of the city to help the wounded, but the US said no. Dr. Salih al-Issawi, told the Associated Press “The American troops’ attempt to take over the hospital was not right because they thought that they would halt medical assistance to the resistance. But they did not realize that * the hospital does not belong to anybody*, especially the resistance.”