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JARED BOWEN, WGBH Boston: For Libyan fighters back from the brink, that is haven, a place of recovery, rehabilitation and therapy.
DR. RYAN ZAKLIN, Spaulding Hospital: The injuries that I'm treating, many of them are gunshot wounds, and there are severe hand injuries to shoulder injuries, nerve injuries. There are, obviously, patients that also have PTSD.
JARED BOWEN: These men -- most were civilians before the fighting began -- are being treated at Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital in Salem, Massachusetts, a continent and a cultural divide away from home.
Spaulding is the only facility in the country now treating wounded Libyan fighters. It was selected by the State Department in part for its care of American soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan.
And upon checking if this was being reported in the Arab world.....
"US treats Libyan fighters" by Alan Fisher, Al Jazeera 11/24/2011
Twenty-two fighters in hospital near Boston for treatment of wounds sustained during uprising
Twenty-two Libyans who took up arms against Muammar Gaddafi and suffered injuries are recuperating in the United States.
The men, aged from 16 to 49 years, were flown to a hospital north of Boston four weeks ago. Their injuries vary from gunshot wounds to head and spinal cord injuries.
Some are hoping to be home in the next few weeks. For others, it will be months before they can return to Libya.
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