"We have some of the best specialists here, " says Dr. Supija Mokkavesa, surgeon general of the Thai army's medical department, which oversees the facility.

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The Special Forces medics later told Mohammed's commander that the Green Berets had asked the Pentagon to waive the usual rules barring Iraqis from being treated in the U.S. He said they want the Defense Department to send Mohammed to Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington to fit him with a prosthetic foot.

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