Original sentence: According to doctors present, they were gathered into groups at gunpoint and treated like insurgents; and valuable hospital property was damaged and destroyed.Meanwhile, a joint unit assault element of Delta Force, Green Berets, SEALs, Air Force Pararescue Jumpers (PJs), and a security force of Army Rangers launched a nighttime raid on the hospital and successfully rescued Lynch and retrieved the bodies of 8 other American soldiers.Witnesses told the BBC that the special forces had known that the Iraqi military had fled a day before they raided the hospital, and that the entire event was staged, even going so far as to use blanks in the Marines' guns to create the appearance that they were firing
Edited sentence: According to certain accounts of doctors present during the raid, they were gathered into groups at gunpoint and treated as possible hostiles until they could be identified as being hospital staff.Contrary to this claim, forces still loyal to Saddam Hussein were reported to have fled the building where the Americans were being held.Many military and Special Forces experts have defended the tactics of the operators who led the raid, saying that special forces teams are trained to expect the worst and move quickly, initially treating each person they encounter as a possible threat.Meanwhile, a joint unit assault element of Delta Force, Green Berets, SEALs, Air Force Pararescue Jumpers (PJs), and a force of Army Rangers launched a nighttime raid on the hospital and successfully rescued Lynch and retrieved the bodies of 8 other American soldiers.One witness account, claimed in an opinion article written by a correspondent within the BBC, included the opinion that the special forces had foreknowledge that the Iraqi military had fled a day before they raided the hospital, and that the entire event was staged, even going so far as to use blanks in the Marine's guns to create the appearance that they were firing