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Jessica Lynch welcomes family in Germany. After everything she's been through — an Iraqi ambush, a daring rescue, and several surgeries — Pfc. Jessica Lynch had nothing but smiles for her family during a long-awaited reunion Sunday. more...

Details Released of Lynch Rescue. Frightened and seriously wounded, a 19-year-old supply clerk who was held by Iraq for more than a week at first hid under a sheet when a team of U.S. military commandos stormed into her hospital room. more...

Iraqi informer angered by treatment of Jessica. The Iraqi man who tipped U.S. Marines to the location of American POW Jessica Lynch said Thursday he did so after he saw her Iraqi captor slap her twice as she lay wounded in a hospital. more...

Iraqi Man Risked All to Help Free American Soldier. Mohammed, a gregarious 32-year-old Iraqi lawyer, went by the hospital in Nasiriyah one day last week to visit his wife, who worked there as a nurse, when he noticed the ominous presence of security agents. more...

Jessica's homecoming present: TV networks call. As surely as an echo follows a gunshot, the phone calls have started. "There's been some talk with the networks about their interest in doing this story," Larry Sanitsky, an independent television producer said yesterday. "This story" is the dramatic rescue by commandos of Private Jessica Lynch from an Iraqi hospital, this week. more...

Jessica Undergoes Back Surgery. The father of rescued POW Army Pfc. Jessica Lynch said Thursday that she was in great spirits following her first surgery and denied reports she was shot and stabbed during her captivity in Iraq. more...

Jessica Calls Home: She's Exhausted, Groggy, Hungry, and Safe. In brief phone calls Wednesday night and Thursday from a U.S. military hospital in Germany, the 19-year-old she hadn't eaten in eight days but she was in good spirits, said her father, Greg Lynch Sr. more...

'She Was Fighting to the Death.' Pfc. Jessica Lynch, rescued Tuesday from an Iraqi hospital, fought fiercely and shot several enemy soldiers after Iraqi forces ambushed the Army's 507th Ordnance Maintenance Company, firing her weapon until she ran out of ammunition, U.S. officials said yesterday. "She was fighting to the death," the official said. "She did not want to be taken alive." more...

Rescued US POW Jessica Lynch stable. Jessica Lynch, the US private dramatically rescued in a special forces operation in Iraq, is in a stable condition at a US military hospital in Germany. more...

Jessica Lynch Arrives at U.S. Base. Lynch, a 19-year-old Army supply clerk, arrived at a U.S. air base in southwestern Germany on a C-17 transport plane late Wednesday for treatment at a U.S. military medical center. Her condition was not disclosed, but U.S. officials in Kuwait said she was believed to have broken legs, a broken arm and at least one gunshot wound. more...

Mission to save Private Lynch. SHORTLY before midnight, US forces took out the lighting grid in Nasiriyah, south of Baghdad, then launched an almighty assault on key targets in the city. more...

‘She’s Alive’ POW Jessica Lynch is on her way home. But her rescue raises unanswered questions-and the grim specter of women combat casualties. It sounded like one of those fanciful Hollywood scripts. On Tuesday night, more than 1,000 Navy Seals, Army Rangers, Marines and Air Force pilots joined forces for a mission to get back one American POW: Private First Class Jessica Lynch, a “junior enlisted” soldier with a maintenance division. more...

Family Celebrates Rescue of US POW. The family of U.S. Army Private Jessica Lynch, who was rescued by American troops after being held prisoner by Iraq forces, is celebrating the release of their daughter but expressing concern for the families of other prisoners. more...

Army Pfc. Jessica Lynch's Family Rejoices. More than a week of worry over Army Pfc. Jessica Lynch quickly turned into a gleeful celebration with blaring sirens and fireworks as her family and friends rejoiced over her rescue in Iraq. more...

Jessica Lynch Is Safe After Rescue The Pentagon confirmed reports that the rescued soldier is Pfc. Jessica Lynch, 19, of Palestine, W. Va., who had been listed as missing in action. Lynch was a member of the Army's 507th Maintenance Company, based out of Fort Bliss, Texas, which was ambushed near the southern Iraqi city of Nasiriyah after making a wrong turn March 23. more...

Father of Jessica Lynch shares initial doubt and joy of rescue. "I thought at first it was an April Fools joke." Greg Lynch Sr., when he learned April 1 that his daughter, 19-year-old Army Pfc. Jessica Lynch, had been rescued after more than a week in captivity in Iraq. more...

Lynch's hometown drawn closer to one another, God, pastor says. The capture and rescue of Army Pfc. Jessica Lynch has served to bring her hometown closer together and closer to God, a Southern Baptist pastor from the area says. more...

American POW Jessica Lynch Leaves Iraq After Being Rescued in Raid on Hospital. An American flag folded across her chest, Pfc. Jessica Lynch left Iraq on a stretcher Wednesday after U.S. commandos, acting on a CIA tip, rescued the prisoner of war. But the operation also brought sad news _ the troops found 11 corpses, some believed to be Americans. more...


[ANALYSIS OF WOMEN IN THE MILITARY]

PRO: Women in the Military. Women have made strides to gain equal rights, yet there is still little tolerance. And yet her place is no longer only in the home. Women cannot stay barefoot and pregnant forever. Women feel they are entitled to whatever they choose. more...

CON: Should women be trained for war? If the father of our country, George Washington, were brought back from the dead, he would denounce the idea of women in combat. He would cry shame at our indecency -- which consists in putting mothers, daughters and sisters into warships and regiments, into bombers and missile silos. more...

CON: Rescue of Jessica Lynch Raises Questions About Women in Combat. It's a step more and more women are taking these days.. and new laws are giving them access to more military jobs than ever. But some don't like the idea of women going to war. People with the Washington-based Center for Military Readiness say women distract men and endanger the mission. more...

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Hollywood eyes Jessica Lynch
16.30PM BST, 4 Apr 2003

The plaster has barely set on rescued POW Jessica Lynch's broken limbs - and Hollywood is already rumoured to be working on a film.
http://www.itv.com/news/721066.html

Saving Jessica Lynch: details of rescue
Saving Jessica Lynch: details of rescue. April 5, 2003. BY NICOLE WINFIELD ASSOCIATED
PRESS. ... Jessica Lynch," called out an American soldier, approaching her bed. ...
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THE WAR FOR TRUTH Apr 5 2003

By John Pilger

WE HAD a great day," said Sgt Eric Schrumpf of the US
Marines last Saturday. "We killed a lot of people."

He added: "We dropped a few civilians, but what do you
do?" He said there were women standing near an Iraqi
soldier, and one of them fell when he and other
Marines opened fire. "I'm sorry," said Sgt Schrumpf,
"but the chick was in the way".

For me, what is remarkable about this story is that I
heard almost the same words 36 years ago when a US
Marine sergeant told me he had killed a pregnant woman
and a child because they had "got in the way".

That was in Vietnam, another country invaded by the US
military machine, which left up to two million people
dead and many more maimed and otherwise ruined.
President Reagan called this "a noble cause". The
other day, President Bush called the invasion of Iraq,
another unprovoked and piratical act, "a noble cause".

In the years since Vietnam, the Americans have invaded
and caused, directly and through stooges, great
suffering in many other countries, but none tells us
more about the current war than their enduring
atrocity in Vietnam, known as the first "media war".

Like their attack on Iraq, their invasion of Vietnam
was accompanied by a racist contempt for the people.
The Vietnamese were "gooks" and "slits" who would
never fight, who would be crushed within weeks. As in
Iraq today, the uncensored evidence of America's
killing was not shown on TV but covered up. General
Colin Powell, Bush's "liberal" Secretary of State, was
promoted swiftly because he was given the job of
covering up the infamous My Lai massacre. In the end,
the Vietnamese defied the Hollywood script and
expelled their invader, but at great cost. The Iraqis,
up against two western air forces and a Disneyworld of
weapons of mass destruction, are unlikely to share the
same honour. And yet they, too, are not keeping to the
script; and their extraordinary resistance against
such overwhelming odds has required intensified
propaganda in Washington and London: aimed not at
them, but at us.

Unlike in Vietnam, this propaganda, lying that is both
crude and subtle, is now dispensed globally and
marketed and controlled like a new niche product.
Richard Gaisford, an "embedded" BBC reporter, said
recently: "We have to check each story we have with
(the military). And the captain, who's our media
liaison officer, will check with the colonel, and they
will check with Brigade headquarters as well."

David Miller, a media analyst at Stirling University,
calls it "public relations genius". It works like
this. Once the official "line" is agreed and
manufactured at the Coalition Press Information Centre
in Kuwait and the $1million press centre in Qatar, it
is submitted to the White House, to what is known as
the Office of Global Communications. It is then
polished for British consumption by Blair's staff of
propagandists in Downing Street.

Truth, above all, is redundant. There is only "good"
news or no news. For example, the arrival in Iraq of
the British ship Sir Galahad with a miserable few
hundred tons of humanitarian aid was a "good" story
given wide coverage. What was missing was the truth
that the Blair government continues to back
Washington's deliberate denial of $5.4billion worth of
humanitarian aid, including baby milk and medical
supplies. This is "aid" which Iraq has paid for (from
oil receipts) and the UN Security Council has
approved.

What was also missing from such a moving tale of
Britain-to-the-rescue was that, under pressure from
Bush and Blair, the United Nations has been forced to
close down its food distribution system in Iraq, which
barely prevented famine in the pre-war period.

BLAIR'S lies about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction
and its alleged links with al-Qaeda have been exposed
and rejected by the majority of the British people. He
has since played his "conviction" card. Perhaps his
last propaganda refuge is a call to support "our
boys".

On September 3, 1967, the Sunday Mirror published a
dispatch of mine from Vietnam under the front page
headline: "How can Britain approve a war like this?"
Today's Mirror asks the same question of the invasion
of Iraq. The difference is that, unlike Blair, Prime
Minister Harold Wilson denied an American president
the use of British troops for his "coalition". A poll
in yesterday's Mirror said that "78 per cent insist
British forces must not be brought home until the war
is over." Polls themselves can make propaganda, with
the question predetermining the answer. What if the
question asked had been: "Do you support British
forces being in Iraq given the absence of any
'liberation' and the rising number of civilian
casualties?"

I doubt whether it would have been anywhere near 78
per cent. There is undoubtedly a traditional reserve
of support for "the troops", no matter the dirty work
they are sent to carry out. Blair's manipulation of
this should not be allowed to succeed. British troops
may be better trained than the Americans; but this
does not alter the fact that they are part of, indeed
essential to, a criminal invasion of a country
offering us no threat.

Trained in media manipulation ("public relations"),
British military spokesmen lie as frequently as the
Americans; if anything, their nonsense about
"uprisings" is too specious by half. The truth they
don't tell is that the British siege of Basra is
strangling the civilian population, causing great
suffering to innocent, men, women and children in
their homeland.

Imagine if Iraqi troops were doing the same to
Coventry, a city of comparable size. Imagine the
outrage: the popular resistance, regardless of who was
in power in London. If we cannot imagine that, then we
have fallen victim to a big lie that reverses right
and wrong. If we cannot put ourselves in Iraqis'
shoes, in the shoes of the grieving family of the
woman who was gunned down by Sgt Schrumpf, "the chick
who got in the way", then we have cause indeed to
worry.

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Brave Iraqi Helped Rescue Mistreated Jessica Lynch
Brave Iraqi Helped Rescue Mistreated Jessica Lynch NewsMax.com Wires Friday, April
4, 2003 WASHINGTON – A 32-year-old Iraqi lawyer, distressed at the way he ...
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LIES, LIES, LIES AND MORE LIES!

• THE STRANGE STORY OF JESSICA LYNCH... — B. Quig, Mon Apr 7 13:42