Sad note about Saving Private Lynch

Read your own BS report..If you want a link open your eyes or listen to real news reports.. Not pickups of moronic BBC reports.

 

Yes, there was this bit I think you missed.


Perhaps Clarke is frustrated that in the days since the BBC report, several major publications such as the Chicago Tribune and the London Daily Mail have independently verified much of the BBC's disturbing account of what the broadcasting corporation called "one of the most stunning pieces of news management ever conceived."



Show me the money.

 

The LA Times, Chi Tribune and London Daily mail are picking up the BBCs account of a phone call..They have only verified that the Iraqi doctors made these ridiculous claims. They never verified the claims were true.
Col. David Hunt reported on Fox news, O'Reily factor. He spoke first hand with special forces personnel who participated in the raid..they refuted the entire story 100%.
The ambulance incident, no one fired on the ambulance, it was an attempt by the same doctors who crafted the BS story..to extort 10,000 dollars for information about her whereabouts. Lynch was never in the ambulance.

 

How does the dodtor who walked eight miles in great danger... twice... to tell the Americans about her fit into this?

 

I dont think he was a doctor.....But he doesnt fit into their story very well because they claimed they tried to return Lynch by ambulance and after that failed , were going to put her in a cart to return her . I doubt the good samaritan would collaborate that story..neither would any other reputable source.
None of the BS news reports mentioned talking with him.

 

zz, I recall now that he was a lawyer and has been brought to the US.

Wasn't part of his story his serious objection to the way she was being treated? Didn't he draw maps of the hospital and reveal details about the security etc?

 

Not all the trues have come out yet. I don't know what really happened.

But I'm not a conspiracy theorist. So it's very hard for me to believe that this was an intentionally staged heroic mission fabricated by the military to boost their image or the legitimacy of the war. There are simply too many things to cover up in order for it to work. And unless it came from all the way up to the Commander in Chief, I don't see how, if proven to be truly a staged drama, this wouldn't come down as outright fraudulent and get some heads rolling.

It seems a lot more likely that it was a real rescue mission. The military was obligated to use every precaution to retrieve a POW inside a battle zone. (I don't know why it's so difficult for some people to understand the military nature of the mission, especially in light of all the attack incidents by disguise civilians.) Either the military knew that there wouldn't be military resistance at the hospital but still used full forces for precautionary purposes, or they were surprised by the lack of resistance due to inaccurate intelligence. Either way, it was reasonable.

It is possible that the initial reports were exaggerated either by the military or the media or both in order to make it more heroic than it really was. But it's hardly a big deal as some anti-war people are trying to make it.

 

This is a bunch of bullsh^!......No matter we have have done over there....good or bad....there is always going to be some kind of controversy around it......

 

You know, every time I hear any conspiracy theory, I ask questions about competance. This is perhaps even more cynical than the conspiracy theory itself.

I do not think this was a precisely planned produced-for-TV moment. I honestly think that would take too much competance. Our intelligence probably wasn't up to date, and we weren't going to take any chances. It's a bit like our intelligence of WMD -- oh, whoops, did I type that? I'm sorry. Wrong thread.

 

Slight update:
http://www.msnbc.com/news/927609.asp

Piecing together Lynch’s body, story


Details reveal Pfc. Lynch — who is still hospitalized — suffered massive injuries in crash

By Dana Priest, William Booth and Susan Schmidt
THE WASHINGTON POST

June 17 — Jessica Lynch, the most famous soldier of the war, remains in a private room at the end of a hall on an upper floor of Walter Reed Army Medical Center, her door guarded by a military police officer.

TO REPAIR the fractures, a spinal injury and other injuries suffered during her ordeal, the 20-year-old private first class undergoes a daily round of physical therapy. But she does so alone, during the lunch hours, when other patients are not admitted.
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Initial news reports, including those in The Washington Post, which cited unnamed U.S. officials with access to intelligence reports, described Lynch emptying her M-16 into Iraqi soldiers. The intelligence reports from intercepts and Iraqi informants said that Lynch fought fiercely, was stabbed and shot multiple times, and that she killed several of her assailants.
“She was fighting to the death,” one of the officials was quoted as saying. “She did not want to be taken alive.”
It became the story of the war, boosting morale at home and among the troops. It was irresistible and cinematic, the maintenance clerk turned woman-warrior from the hollows of West Virginia who just wouldn’t quit. Hollywood promised to make a movie and the media, too, were hungry for heroes.
Lynch’s story is far more complex and different than those initial reports. Much of the story remains shrouded in mystery, in large part because of official Army secrecy, concerns for Lynch’s privacy and her limited memory.
The Post’s initial coverage attracted widespread criticism because many of the sources were unnamed and because the accounts were soon contradicted by other military officials. In an effort to document more fully what had actually happened to Lynch, The Post interviewed dozens of people, including associates of Lynch’s family in West Virginia, Iraqi doctors, nurses and civilian witnesses in Nasiriyah and U.S. intelligence and military officials in Washington, three of whom have knowledge of a weeks-long Army investigation into the matter.
The result is a second, more thorough but inconclusive cut at history. While much more is revealed about her ordeal, most U.S. officials still insisted that their names be withheld from this account.
Lynch tried to fire her weapon, but it jammed, according to military officials familiar with the Army investigation. She did not kill any Iraqis. She was neither shot nor stabbed, they said.

Lynch’s unit, the 507th Maintenance Company, was ambushed outside Nasiriyah after taking several wrong turns. Army investigators believe this happened in part because superiors never passed on word that the long 3rd Infantry Division column that the convoy was following had been rerouted. The 507th was 12 hours behind the main column and frequently out of radio contact before it was attacked.
Lynch was riding in a Humvee when it plowed into a jacknifed U.S. truck — a precarious position that led to major injuries, including multiple fractures and compression to her spine, that knocked her unconscious, military sources said. The collision killed or gravely injured the Humvee’s four other passengers.
Two U.S. officials with knowledge of the Army investigation said Lynch was mistreated by her captors. They would not elaborate.
Days later, tipped that Lynch was inside Saddam Hussein General Hospital in Nasiriyah, the CIA, fearing a trap, sent an agent into the facility with a hidden camera to confirm she was there and help draw a blueprint for her rescue, intelligence sources said.
The Special Operations unit’s full-scale rescue of the private, while justified given the uncertainty confronting the U.S. forces as they entered the compound, ultimately was proven unnecessary. Iraqi combatants had left the hospital almost a day earlier, leaving Lynch in the hands of doctors and nurses who said they were eager to turn her over to Americans.
Neither the Pentagon nor the White House publicly dispelled the more romanticized initial version of her capture, helping to foster the myth surrounding Lynch and fuel accusations that the Bush administration staged-managed parts of Lynch’s story.
Only Lynch is in position to know everything that happened to her — and she may not ever be able to tell the story.
“The doctors are reasonably sure,” said Army spokesman Kiki Bryant, “that she does not know what happened to her.”

FALLING BEHIND
‘There was shooting, shooting everywhere. There were accidents, too. Crash sounds. You could see and hear the vehicles hitting each other. And yelling. Screaming. I could hear English.’
— SAHIB KHUDHER
Farmer who lives outside Nasiriyah On the western outskirts of Nasiriyah, just a few miles from the city’s downtown, a middle-aged farmer named Sahib Khudher was worried and outside of his house when a large U.S. convoy — a dozen or more trucks, trailers, wreckers and Humvees — passed by on the road heading north at a few hours before dawn, he said. It was March 23, the third day of the war, as U.S. troops poured into Iraq in a modern-day blitz.
The farmer waved at the Americans. “But they did not see me,” he said.
A few hours later, trucks mysteriously returned. At first, Khudher thought they might be Iraqi Army members or Republican Guards coming to fight. But he saw that the vehicles were American, and that they were being pursued in a wild, running gun battle with pickup trucks filled with what Khudher assumed were militia from Saddam’s Fedayeen and Iraqi irregulars in civilian clothing. They were firing into the U.S. vehicles and at their tires.
“There was shooting, shooting everywhere,” Khudher said. “There were accidents, too. Crash sounds. You could see and hear the vehicles hitting each other. And yelling. Screaming. I could hear English.”
The 18 Humvees, trailers and tow trucks of Lynch’s 507th Maintenance Company were the tail end of the 3rd Infantry Division’s 8,000-vehicle convoy snaking its way from Kuwait to Baghdad. A Patriot missile maintenance crew by training, the members of the 507th based at Fort Bliss, Tex., were assigned to keep the Army’s war machine moving.
The initial plan called for moving north on “Route Blue,” Highway 8, until the southern outskirts of Nasiriyah, according to military officials. Because the city was still teeming with enemy fighters, commanders decided to reroute the column to “Route Jackson,” Highway 1, which skirted around the town to the south and west.
But the 507th never got word of the change.
CBS defends pitch to Lynch

The miscommunication happened, in part, Army investigators believe, because a battalion commander in the 3rd Forward Support Battalion to which it was attached never made sure the 507th had received word of the route change.
“They didn’t know about Route Jackson,” said one senior military officer briefed on the investigators’ findings. “We believe it would have never happened if the proper procedure had been followed.”
The unit fell behind as the enormous wrecking tractors and cargo trailers — equipment to haul other giant Army vehicles and supplies — tried to adjust to the division’s changing pace.
But other mishaps contributed. Long before they reached Nasiriyah, two of the 507th’s 5-ton trailers had broken down, forcing the back half of the unit — 18 vehicles in all — to fall further behind the lead elements, where the company commander was riding.
Lynch was among the soldiers in that trailing half.
By the time the 507th reached Nasiriyah, some of the unit’s soldiers and officers had gone without sleep for 60 hours. As one officer put it, they suffered “a fatigue that adversely affected their decision-making.”

A ‘CATASTROPHIC’ CRASH
As they entered the city, the commander of Lynch’s company — a captain whose identity could not be learned — informed superiors up ahead that they had fallen as many as 12 hours behind. “He was advised the rest of the column has to move on time whether the rest of them get there or not,” a defense official familiar with the Army’s investigation said.
Navigating through unfamiliar streets, troops jury-rigged antennas to stay in touch with the lead elements of the battalion since their radios had a range of only 10 miles. But the radios didn’t always work.
As they entered the city, it was about 6:30 a.m., and few Iraqis were about. Those who were, including soldiers at checkpoints and armed men in SUVs, just waved at the Americans as they drove by, military officials said.
Using a navigational device, the company commander turned the convoy left and, minutes later, came to a T-intersection, where he ordered the vehicles to turn right again. Then the commander decided turn the column of huge, lumbering trailers and tractors around.
They attempted to retrace their route, but missed a turn. Then one of the American vehicles ran out of fuel.
Lynch at this point was riding on a 5-ton truck.
It was 7 a.m., and more Iraqis were appearing on the streets, military officials with knowledge of the Army investigation said. The company commander instructed his troops to lock and load their weapons. Each soldier had 210 rounds of ammunition. The senior non-commissioned officer, Master Sgt. Robert J. Dowdy, 38, took the rear position in the column, while the company commander went up front.
“We have to pick up speed, move faster!” Dowdy began yelling over the radio, according to the defense official, who has read the surviving soldiers’ accounts.
As the convoy drove back into central Nasiriyah, it was met by Iraqi forces, some in civilian clothes, who fired at it from on foot, from vehicles and from stationary mortar positions. Soldiers interviewed by investigators said the Iraqis fired AK-47s, machine guns, rocket-propelled grenades, hand grenades and mortar shells. The Iraqis fired from both sides of the road.
At least one Iraqi T-55 tank appeared, and the Iraqis positioned sandbags, debris and cars to block the convoy’s path.
“A very harrowing, very intense” gun battle was how the senior military officer described it. The U.S. troops fired back.
“We don’t know how many rounds she got off,” the official said of Lynch, or whether she got off any shots at all. “Her weapon jammed severely.”
At some point, Lynch’s vehicle broke down and she got into Dowdy’s soft-top Humvee, which was driven by Pfc. Lori Piestewa, one of Lynch’s close friends. They were joined by two other soldiers whose wrecker became disabled. Dowdy pulled them to safety at great risk to himself, the defense official said. They took the seats on either side of Lynch, who sat atop the transmission hump in the middle.
As his soldiers came under fire, Dowdy, now with four soldiers in his Humvee, sped along the road at speeds of 50 mph, encouraging his soldiers “to get into the fight, trying to get vehicles to move and getting soldiers out of one broken-down vehicle and into another,” the senior military officer said.
The soldiers in Dowdy’s Humvee “had their weapons at the ready and their seat belts off,” said the senior officer, who was also briefed on the investigation. “We assume they were firing back.”
There were other acts of bravery. One soldier, whose name could not be learned, bolted from his vehicle to try to rescue other soldiers from a disabled vehicle. He took cover behind a berm, not realizing at first that Iraqi soldiers were on the other side in a mortar pit. When he did, he killed a half-dozen of them with his weapons, the defense official said. Soon, though, he was surrounded by a couple of dozen armed Iraqis and is believed to have been killed on the spot.
“He didn’t have a chance,” said the official.
A U.S. tractor-trailer with a flatbed swerved around an Iraqi dump truck and jack-knifed. As Dowdy’s speeding Humvee approached the overturned tractor-trailer, it was hit on the driver’s side by a rocket-propelled grenade. The driver, Piestewa, lost control of the Humvee, swerved right and struck the trailer.
The senior defense official described the collision as “catastrophic.”
Dowdy, sitting in the passenger seat, was killed instantly. So, probably, were the two soldiers on either side of Lynch. Piestewa and Lynch were seriously injured, according the senior officer’s account.
Lynch’s arm and legs were crushed by the compression, U.S. military doctors would later conclude. Tiny bone fragments protruded through her skin.
Khuder, the Iraqi farmer, remembered seeing a Humvee crash into a truck. Later, when it was safe to approach the road, he saw “two American women, one dark skinned, one light skinned, pulled from the Humvee. I think the light one was dead. The dark-skinned one was hurt.”
Khudher appears to have seen Lynch, who is white, unconscious, taken prisoner, as well as Piestewa, who was Native American, still alive.
In the hours after the ambush, Arabic-speaking interpreters at the National Security Agency, reviewing intercepted Iraqi communications from either hand-held radios or cellular phones, heard references to “an American female soldier with blond hair who was very brave and fought against them,” according to a senior military officer who read the top-secret intelligence report when it came in. An intelligence source cited reports from Iraqis at the scene, saying she had fired all her ammunition.
Over the next hours and days, commanders at Central Command, which was running the war from Qatar, and CIA officers with them at headquarters were bombarded with military “sit reps” and agency Field Information Reports about the ambush, according to intelligence and military sources. The Iraqi reports included information about a female soldier. One said she died in battle. Some said she was wounded by shrapnel. Some said she had been shot in the arm and leg, and stabbed.
These reports were distributed only to generals, intelligence officers and policymakers in Washington who are cleared to read the most sensitive information the U.S. government possesses.
These intelligence reports, and the one eavesdropped snippet, created the story of the war.

‘SHE WOULD HAVE DIED’
Down a two-lane blacktop rolling through dry farmlands, just a mile or two from the ambush site, lies the Iraqi military hospital of Nasiriyah. It was where the Lynch was first treated after her capture.
Today, the three-story structure is a gutted ruin, charred from fires. Mangled brown Iraqi military vehicles fill the parking lot.
On the morning of Lynch’s capture, the military hospital was a beehive, with fleeing, fighting and wounded Iraqi troops coming and going as U.S. troops swept into Iraq from Kuwait.
‘If we had left her without treatment, she would have died.’
— ADNAN MUSHAFAFAWI
Brigadier in the Iraqi Army medical corps Adnan Mushafafawi, a brigadier in the Iraqi Army medical corps, a member of Saddam Hussein’s Baath Party and the director of the hospital, said a policeman brought in two female U.S. soldiers about 10 a.m.
“They were both unconscious,” he said. They were severely wounded, he recalled, exhibiting symptoms of shock and trauma. He read their dog tags: They were Jessica Lynch and her friend and fellow 507th soldier Lori Piestewa.
“Miss Lori,” Mushafafawi said, “had bruises all over her face. She was bleeding from the eyes. A severe head wound.” He said Piestewa died soon after arriving at the hospital.
Did either soldier display evidence she had been stabbed or shot? “No, no,” he said. Pressed, he later answered, “Maybe, Miss Lori, maybe shot.”
Mushafafawi said he and his medical staff cut away Lynch’s uniform and threw her clothes on the floor. She lay on a gurney, almost naked, as Iraqi military doctors and nurses worked on her, he said.
Lynch had multiple fractures, Mushafafawi said, a head injury that he described as minor. He said the staff sutured the wound. She was given blood and intravenous fluids, he said. The staff took X-rays, partly set her fractures and applied splints and plaster casts to them.
“If we had left her without treatment, she would have died,” Mushafafawi said.
The military doctor said Lynch briefly regained consciousness at his hospital, but appeared disoriented. “She was very scared,” he said. “We reassured her that she would be safe now.”
But when Mushafafawi suggested to Lynch that he might attempt to better set her leg fracture, Lynch told him, “No, she didn’t want us to do anything more,” he recalled.
“She was here two, three hours,” the doctor said and then transferred by military ambulance to Nasiriyah’s main civilian facility, Saddam Hussein General Hospital across town.
Mushafafawi said he assumed his military hospital probably would be attacked by U.S. forces, who two days later overran the compound. He said that it was his decision to transfer Lynch and that no military or intelligence officers accompanied her. Piestewa’s body also was transported to Saddam Hussein hospital.
Mushafafawi said he did not know what happened to Piestewa or Lynch between their capture shortly after 7 a.m. and their appearance at his hospital about three hours later.
Later that day, the Arab news network al-Jazeera broadcast graphic close-up film of bodies, believed to be from Lynch’s unit, sprawled on a concrete floor at an undisclosed location. Two of the soldiers appeared to have been shot in the forehead, one between the eyes. A smiling Iraqi moved among the bodies, displaying them for the camera.
Four exhausted and shaken POWs from the 507th were shown in the same newscast giving minimal answers to questions posed by their Iraqi captors who had transported them to Baghdad.

‘CRYING ALL THE TIME’
When Lynch arrived at Saddam Hussein hospital in a military ambulance that afternoon, the nurses and doctors who admitted her said they were surprised to find an American woman, almost naked, her limbs in plaster casts, beneath a sheet.
Interviewed recently about Lynch’s stay at the hospital, members of the staff insisted that they gave her the best care they could, and that they did not believe it was possible for Iraqi agents to have abused her while she was there. Though Iraqi military, intelligence and Baath Party officials began using the hospital as a base of operations, they said they saw no one mistreat Lynch — though a member of Iraq’s intelligence service was posted outside her door.
As the doctors and nurses recalled, Lynch’s condition was grave as they brought her into the emergency room. In addition to her multiple fractures, her extremities were cold, her blood pressure down, her heart rate accelerated. She was unconscious and in shock.
‘It was substandard care, by American standards, we know this, okay? But Jessica got the best we could offer.’
— HARITH HASSONA
Resident physician who helped treat Lynch The hospital was operating, but stressed to its limits. Only a dozen doctors from a staff of 60 came to work; the nursing staff, especially women, was skeletal as the roads were too dangerous to travel; the electricity was sporadic; the generators were failing; medical supplies spotty; and all the while, during Lynch’s stay at the hospital, the hospital was receiving more than 200 casualties a day and one young intern said he was reduced to mopping up bloody floors himself.
“It was substandard care, by American standards, we know this, okay? But Jessica got the best we could offer,” said Harith Hassona, one of two young resident physicians who assisted in her care.
After several days of treatment, Lynch’s condition improved. She was moved from the emergency room to an empty cardiac care unit, where she had her own room, and was tended by two female nurses.
But she was in pain, and given powerful drugs. She ate, sporadically, asking for juice and crackers. The staff said she was offered Iraqi hospital food, but refused. “She wanted to see things opened in front of her, then she would eat,” said Furat Hussein, one of her nurses.
Her mental state varied from hour to hour, according to the Iraqi nurses and doctors. “She would joke with us sometimes, and sometimes she would weep,” Hussein said.
“She didn’t want to be left alone and she didn’t want strangers to care for her,” said Anmar Uday, one of the two primary care physicians. “One time, she asked me, ‘Why are you standing in front of me? Are you gong to hurt me?’ We said no, we’re here to help you.”
‘She was more important at that moment than Saddam Hussein.’
— MAHDI KHAFAJIOrthopedic surgeon

“Crying all the time,” recalled Khalida Shnan, a nurse who wept herself when describing how she tried to comfort Lynch by singing to her night and rubbing talc on her shoulders. Mahdi Khafaji, the orthopedic surgeon, said he knew that sooner or later U.S. troops would come for Lynch and “we wanted to show the Americans that we are human beings.”
Khafaji said treating Lynch well was in their self-interest: “She was more important at that moment than Saddam Hussein.” He added, “You could not help but feeling sorry for her. A young girl. An American. A prisoner. We did our best. Believe me, she was the only orthopedic surgery I performed.” Khafaji suggested that as he worked on Lynch, ordinary Iraqis went without treatment, and some may have died.
But Khafaji said that, without a doubt, the Iraqi leadership was also employing Lynch as a human shield.
If the hospital was chaotic and understaffed, it was also overrun with senior Iraqi officials, who were living and working out of the basement, clinics, and the doctors’ residence halls and offices.
The staff said there were 50 to 100 Iraqi combatants in or around the hospital at any one time — though the number shrank day by day as deserters fled at night and the Americans closed in.
The head of the municipal government, Younis Mohammad Thareb, was there, as was senior Baath Party officer Adel Abdallah Doori. There were military and special security officers also, as well as Iraqi militia and members of Saddam’s Fedayeen.
“They were all here,” Hassona said.
Someone in civilian clothes, whom Hassona said was a low-ranking employee of one of the Iraqi intelligence services, stood guard outside Lynch’s door. Hassona and other hospital staffers said they kept a close eye on Lynch; they feared that Iraqi officials might try to move her, harass or interrogate her. “But you have to understand that these guys knew the Americans were coming, and toward the end, they were most worried about saving themselves,” Hassona said.
But there was still an atmosphere of fear.
“When she woke up once, she was saying she was scared and wanted someone to stay with her,” Hassona recalled. “She said, ‘I’m afraid of Saddam Hussein,’ and I said, ‘Shhhh. Don’t say that name. You must keep quiet.’ ”
Soon after Lynch’s arrival, Hassona and Khafaji said they were approached by an intelligence officer and asked how soon Lynch could be moved.
“I told him 72 hours, at least,” Khafaji said.
Khafaji said that Lynch’s wounds made him suspicious. The fractures were on both sides of her body, for example, and “if they all came from a car accident, there was no glass in her wounds, no lacerations or deep bruises.”
U.S. military sources believe most if not all the fractures could have been caused by extreme compression during her vehicle accident. Khafaji said “maybe a car accident or maybe they broke her bones with rifle butts or by stomping on her legs. I don’t know. They know and Jessica knows. I can only guess.”

A LAWYER’S STORY

Within a few days of her capture, U.S. military and intelligence agencies would learn from several Iraqis in Nasiriyah that one of the 507th soldiers was held captive at Saddam Hussein Hospital.
One of those Iraqis was Mohammed Odeh Rehaief, a 32-year-old lawyer who told U.S. authorities he learned about Lynch on March 27, when he went there to see his wife, Iman, a nurse in the kidney unit.
“In the hospital corridors, I observed a large number of Fedayeen Saddam,” Rehaief recounted in a statement. “I knew they were Fedayeen because they were wearing their traditional black ninja-style uniforms that covered everything but their eyes. I also saw high army officials there.”
Rehaief said a doctor friend told him about Lynch. He peered through a glass panel into her room, he said, and “saw a large man in black looming over a bed that contained a small bandaged woman with blond hair.”
There were epaulets on man’s shirt, indicating he was a Fedayeen officer, Rahaief said. “He appeared to be questioning the woman through a translator. Then I saw him slap her — first with the palm of his hand, then with the back of his hand.”
When the Fedayeen officer left, Rehaief said, he crept into Lynch’s room and told her he would help her. “Don’t worry,” he said. He then walked east across Nasiriyah where he encountered a group of Marines and told them about Lynch.
The Marines, who corroborated Rehaief’s story that he assisted them, sent him back to the hospital several times to map out access to the site, the route getting there and to count the number of Iraqi troops inside.
The staff of the civilian hospital believe Rehaief did tell the Marines about Lynch, but some nurses and doctors disputed other parts of his story.
The head nurse of the hospital said there is no nurse named Iman employed by the facility, or any nurse married to a lawyer. “This is something we would know,” she said.
“Never happened,” Hassona said. Men in black slapping Lynch? “That’s some Hollywood crap you’d tell the Americans.” Hassona said he suspected the lawyer embellished his story.

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Booth reported from Nasiriyah, interviewing Iraqi doctors and nurses in the hospitals where Lynch was treated, and Iraqi citizens who witnessed elements of the initial capture. Priest and Schmidt reported from Washington, interviewing military and intelligence officials with detailed knowledge of Lynch’s capture and rescue, as well as officials close to the Lynch family.

© 2003 The Washington Post Company

 

From CNN

Why is CNN (supposedly anti-War/anti-Bush...according to FOX) reporting this when there are all of these conflicting stories? This thread takes another turn