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Posted 16 May 2003 |
Only for reasons of completeness I file the stuff from
which the details were quoted into the Media report of 16 May 2003. That's
all folks, you can read the 'raw material' from that raw material some
details are chosen to emphasize some 'basic attitude' of our dear virgin.
In this case I would like to emphasize the following point:
................... (think a bit for yourself what can be concluded if it
is really true that that ambulance really did get under american fire, try
to think self a little bit please!) By John Kampfner; Thursday, 15 May, 2003, 08:50 GMT 09:50 UK Private Jessica Lynch became an icon of the war, and the story of her capture by the Iraqis and her rescue by US special forces became one of the great patriotic moments of the conflict. Private Lynch, a 19- year-old army clerk from Palestine, West Virginia, was captured when her company took a wrong turning just outside Nasiriya and was ambushed. Nine of her comrades were killed and Private Lynch was taken to the local hospital, which at the time was swarming with
Fedayeen. Eight days later US special forces stormed the hospital, capturing the "dramatic" events on a night vision camera. Reports claimed that she had stab and bullet wounds and that she had been slapped about on her hospital bed and interrogated. But Iraqi doctors in Nasiriya say they provided the best treatment they could for the soldier in the midst of war. She was assigned the only specialist bed in the hospital and one of only two nurses on the floor. There was one more twist. Two days before the snatch squad arrived, Harith had arranged to deliver Jessica to the Americans in an ambulance. When footage of the rescue was released, General Vincent Brooks, US spokesman in Doha, said: "Some brave souls put their lives on the line to make this happen, loyal to a creed that they know that they'll never leave a fallen comrade."
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