[Patterson said he expected McDonnall to be transported from Iraq to the hospital on Wednesday.] We continue to find it amazing that people of a violent turn will take out people who are there purely on humanitarian aid grounds, and trying to help them, ... But that's the violence that's typical of our world now, unfortunately.

Paige Patterson

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