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Saving Private Lynch story 'flawed'
When Private Jessica Lynch, a 19-year-old army clerk, was captured by the Iraqis and rescued by US special forces, the story became one of the great patriotic moments of the conflict. Reports claimed that she had stab and bullet wounds and that she had been slapped about on her hospital bed and interrogated. Yet, there was no sign of shooting. No bullet inside her body and no stab wound. Only road traffic injuries. She was assigned the only specialist bed in the hospital and one of only two nurses on the floor. "I examined her, I saw she had a broken arm, a broken thigh and a dislocated ankle," said Dr Harith a-Houssona, who looked after her.

Witnesses said that the special forces knew that the Iraqi military had fled a day before they swooped on the hospital. There was no military, there were no soldiers in the hospital. It was like a Hollywood film. They cried "go, go, go", with guns and blanks without bullets, blanks and the sound of explosions. They made a show for the American attack on the hospital -- just like action movies with Sylvester Stallone or Jackie Chan.

Two days before the snatch squad arrived, Harith had arranged to deliver Jessica to the Americans in an ambulance. But as the ambulance, with Private Lynch inside, approached a checkpoint American troops opened fire, forcing it to flee back to the hospital. The Americans had almost killed their prize catch. The American strategy was to ensure the right television footage by using embedded reporters and images from their own cameras, editing the film themselves. The Pentagon had been influenced by Hollywood producers of reality TV and action movies, notably the man behind Black Hawk Down, Jerry Bruckheimer.

But doctors now say she has no recollection of the whole episode and probably never will. *** I wonder if they told her to have "no recollection." ***

posted by Hal 7:44 PM