article_snippet: Tikrit, Iraq (CNN)Two men in blue smocks were mopping up blood spilled in the main entrance to the Dijla Hospital south of Tikrit when we arrived there mid-morning Friday.
article_snippet: some wearing blue disposable surgical gowns, others in dark green military fatigues.
article_snippet: some wearing blue disposable surgical gowns, others in dark green military fatigues were huddled over a man naked to the waist, a thick plastic tube inserted in a man wearing a vest with the emblem of the Iraqi Red Crescent side, red with blood, leading to a bottle filling up with more blood.