A U.S. military spokesman and a senior adviser to the Army’s 10th Mountain Division are now pushing back against claims made by a Swedish charity group that its soldiers rampaged through a hospital in Wardak province, Afghanistan while searching for insurgents.

A senior spokesman for Central Command (CENTCOM) Captain Jack Hanzlik said the Army did enter the hospital, but did so in cooperation with the Afghan National Army, the Afghan National Police, and the staff of the hospital.

Anders Fange, the country director of the Swedish Committee for Afghanistan, on Monday accused troops of breaking down doors, searching patients’ relatives and entering the ultrasound room.

The statement went on to accuse U.S. soldiers of restraining hospital workers and tying up family members of several patients.

Captain Hanzlik told Fox News that members of Task Force 82, which includes members of the U.S. Army’s 10th Mountain Division, were chasing insurgents who had recently detonated an Improvised Explosive Device, or roadside bomb.

Those forces, he said, had strong reason to believe that an insurgent commander was in the hospital and explained these concerns to hospital staff before seeking permission to enter the hospital.

Coalition forces, which included members of the Afghan National Army and Police, then entered the hospital with permission from the staff, the military said. “No one was tied up,” according to Hanzlik. “However, one locked door was kicked in, but again with permission from the hospital.”

In a FOX News exclusive, Lt James Peck, who was the on scene commander, said they spoke with the hospital staff before entering any of the rooms.

“They didn’t have keys for two doors. The rest they were able to open with keys, but the two they didn’t have keys for, we asked them first if we could enter, and they said if we desired we could enter.”

“We asked permission before we forcibly entered the rooms,” he told FOX. “We only forcibly entered because we didn’t have a way of getting into the rooms.”

Violence has surged across much of Afghanistan since President Barack Obama ordered 21,000 more U.S. troops to the country this year. Two foreign troops were killed Sunday when their patrol hit a roadside bomb and a third died of wounded sustained in a separate gunbattle

FOX News’ Justin Fishel and Jennifer Griffin and the Associated Press contributed to this report.
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Yes, the Taliban is always following our lead…

“When they left two hours later, the soldiers ordered hospital staff to inform coalition forces if any wounded insurgents were admitted, and the military would decide if they could be treated, he said.”

That’s an absolute lie. Our guys are out there every single day picking up injured people and taking them to medical facilities. It doesn’t matter who they are – we help them – and our guys risk their lives to do it. They clean up after the Taliban constantly, and now they are getting blamed for what the Taliban does by some stupid Swedes. How about some stories about the hundreds, if not thousands, of Afghans we have medically treated after the Taliban injured them?! Does the Swedish Committee for Afghanistan have anything to say about that?
Hats off to the pilots, gunners, and medics (however they are referred to in each branch) who thanklessly help these people every day.

Swedish Committee for Afghanistan?
Is that the equal to our acclaimed ACORN?

This lynchpin of the moral horrors of America must be continually proven, or the whole storyline could crumble.

If enough lynchpins were to crumble, why, the big bad country might even revert to its ever-lurking jingoistic ways.

And that wouldn’t be good for dictators around the world who, after all, are only trying to do the right thing for the people they must crush for their own good.