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Ex-PoW Jessica Lynch criticizes U.S. military as town learns of sexual assault
ALLISON BARKER Canadian Press

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Friday, November 07, 2003
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An image from a U.S. forces video shows the rescue of United States soldier Jessica Lynch on April 1. (AP)

PALESTINE, W.Va. (AP) - Former prisoner of war Jessica Lynch accused the military of using her capture and dramatic nighttime rescue to sway public support for the war in Iraq.

Dramatic video of U.S. commandos whisking the former army supply clerk from a Nasiriyah hospital to a waiting chopper April 1 helped cement Lynch's image as a hero. But the 20-year-old private told ABC's Diane Sawyer there was no reason for her rescue to be filmed. "They used me as a way to symbolize all this stuff," Lynch told Sawyer in a Primetime interview to air Tuesday. "It's wrong."

The network posted the excerpt on its website Friday.

Lynch suffered broken bones and other injuries when her 507th Maintenance Company convoy was attacked after taking a wrong turn in the Iraqi town of Nasiriyah on March 23.

Early reports had Lynch fighting her attackers until she ran out of ammunition and suffering knife and bullet wounds. Military officials later said Lynch wasn't shot but was hurt after her Humvee utility vehicle was hit by a rocket-propelled grenade and crashed into another vehicle.

She was awarded the Bronze Star, Purple Heart and Prisoner of War medals while still in hospital in Washington, D.C.

Lynch told Sawyer she was just in the wrong place at the wrong time, and that her gun jammed during the chaos. "I'm not about to take credit for something I didn't do," she said.

"I did not shoot, not a round, nothing. . . . I went down, praying, to my knees. And that's the last I remember."

On Thursday, Lynch won admiration in her hometown for having the courage to reveal she was raped by her Iraqi captors.

The attack is documented by medical records cited in I am a Soldier, Too: The Jessica Lynch Story. The authorized biography, written by reporter Rick Bragg, is being released by Knopf publishing on Tuesday, Veterans Day.

Family spokesman Stephen Goodwin acknowledged that the book discusses the sexual assault.

"It's important to tell the story and let it be known, but she's not going to talk about it anymore," Goodwin said. "She really doesn't want to say any more on this issue."

Palestine resident Leah Eberbaugh said she admired Lynch for including the assault in the book.

"Can you imagine the humility it takes to tell the world you were raped? That's not a secret that a woman likes to tell," Eberbaugh said.

Relatives are now turning their worry to Lynch's brother, army Specialist Greg Lynch Jr., who is being deployed to Iraq, the Parkersburg News reported Friday.

Greg Lynch, a helicopter mechanic, introduced his sister at a news conference when she returned home in July to recover from her injuries.

Months later, she is receiving two hours of physical therapy five days a week and taking about 18 pills a day. She's up to about 100 pounds from a low of 70.

She still has not regained feeling in her left foot and uses crutches. She opts for a wheelchair on shopping trips to nearby Parkersburg.

Since her return to West Virginia's smallest county, population about 5,900, Lynch has made a few public appearances.

She stopped in at Mom's Place for some home cooking and a slice of chocolate pie. She appeared at the county fair, raised the American flag at Wirt County High School's homecoming game and visited with schoolchildren.

Despite her public appearances, most residents have shied away from asking her about her experiences in Iraq. The family also hasn't talked about her experiences.

"You can hear that speculation, but to see it in print and to know it's fact, it hurts," said Lorene Cumbridge, a 63-year-old cousin who lives near the Lynches.

Emzy Ashby said Iraqi lawyer Mohammed al-Rehaief, who is credited with going to the U.S. marines after seeing Lynch slapped in the Iraqi hospital, is the hero. Al-Rehaief recently visited Palestine, but Lynch did not meet with him.

"There's no way she will ever be able to repay that man," Ashby said.

In excerpts of the ABC interview, Lynch said she doesn't remember being slapped or mistreated at the hospital, and she recalled one nurse sang to her.

She said her heroes were the soldiers who rescued her and those who died in the ambush on her unit.

"I'm just a survivor," she said.
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It is entirely possible, even likely, that the Fictional Heroic Jessica Lynch who has been variously shot, stabbed, beaten and broken boned, was named after the beauty queen.

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Details Released of Lynch Rescue
Saturday, April 05, 2003

CAMP AS SAYLIYAH, Qatar — "Jessica Lynch," a U.S. soldier called out. "We are United States soldiers, and we're here to protect you and take you home."

On her hospital bed, Pfc. Jessica Lynch peered out from the sheet with which she'd been covering her head in fear.

"I'm an American soldier, too," she replied.

U.S. Central Command on Saturday released the dramatic details of Lynch's rescue, as the 19-year-old supply clerk, now safely at a U.S. military hospital in Germany, awaited a meeting with her family.

Lynch's parents, two siblings and a cousin left their West Virginia home Saturday to fly to Germany for the reunion with their daughter. "I can't wait to see her," said her mother, Deadra Lynch.

Air Force Maj. Gen. Gene Renuart, speaking at a briefing in Qatar, said a team of Navy SEALs, Marine commandos, Air Force pilots and Army Rangers carried out the rescue Tuesday in the southern Iraqi city of Nasiriyah.

While troops engaged the Iraqis in another part of the city, the rescue team persuaded an Iraqi doctor to lead them to Lynch, Renuart said.

Lynch, who'd been held since a week earlier when her unit was ambushed, had suffered a head wound, an injury to her spine, and fractures to her right arm, both legs, her right foot and ankle. The rescuers quickly evaluated her medical condition, secured her to a stretcher and took her to a waiting helicopter.

"Jessica held up her hand and grabbed the Ranger doctor's hand, and held onto it for the entire time, and said, 'Please don't let anybody leave me,"' Renuart said. "It was clear she knew where she was and didn't want to be left anywhere near the enemy."

Meanwhile, the Iraqi doctor told the team there were remains of other U.S. soldiers nearby, and they were led to a burial site. Because they had not brought shovels, Renuart said, the team dug up the bodies with their hands.

"They wanted to do that very rapidly, so they could race the sun and be off the site before the sun came up," he said. "It's a great testament to the will and desire of coalition forces to bring their own home."

The Americans were also looking for Iraqi President Saddam Hussein's cousin, Ali Hassan al-Majid, commander of southern forces. He is known as Chemical Ali for leading the 1988 campaign against rebellious Kurds in northern Iraq in which thousands died, many in chemical attacks.

"On the evening of the attack, he was not located in that hospital," Renuart said. "That's not to say that we haven't been tracking him down at some other locations and will continue to do so until we're pretty confident that he's been eliminated."

Renuart did not shed any new light on how Lynch sustained her wounds — whether she was injured in captivity or when the 507th Maintenance Company was ambushed March 23.

Eight of the dead soldiers found during the rescue were members of the ambushed unit, Renuart said. The ninth was a soldier from a forward support group of the Army's 3rd Infantry Division, he said. All have been transported back to the United States.

The Lynch family got word of the deaths Saturday just before boarding a plane in Charleston, W.Va. The family broke off a news conference after being told that seven members of their daughter's unit were among the bodies retrieved during the raid.

"I wasn't aware of this. ... Our hearts are really saddened for her other troop members and the other families," Lynch's father, Gregory Lynch Sr., said before choking up.

Lynch's family has said doctors had determined she'd been shot. They found two entry and exit wounds "consistent with low-velocity, small-caliber rounds," her mother has said.

Lynch had a back operation Thursday and surgery for other broken bones Friday, according to the commander of the hospital, Col. David Rubenstein. A friend is at her bedside and although she's still being fed intravenously, she's drawn up a list of her favorite foods for the hospital: turkey, steamed carrots and applesauce.

"Her emotional state is extremely good. She's jovial. She's talking with staff," Rubenstein said.

While the U.S. team was in the hospital, Renuart said, they also found a weapons cache and a large-scale sandbox model depicting U.S. and Iraqi positions in Nasiriyah.

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Rumor...........

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The domain names could not have been

issued to Iraq's, as communications have been down since the war started

There's something strange with the Jessica Lynch story.

She was allegedly captured on March 23rd...HOWEVER her NINE domain names
were registered by businessmen ON THE 17TH OF MARCH! That's FIVE BUSINESS
DAYS BEFORE HER CAPTURE, WHICH CAUSED THE DOW JONES TO CLIMB OVER 215 POINTS
AS THE MEDIA PLAYED HER STORY...

jessicalynch .org .net .com .us .biz .info .ws .tv .cc are all registered!

As quoted by United Press International and AP newswire, etc...

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"The Pentagon announced early Saturday that eight of the soldiers whose
bodies were found during the April 1 rescue of Jessica Lynch were traveling
with her in the convoy ambushed ***March 23*** in southern Iraq"

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