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8 May 2003
Filed under:Current Affairs (World) at5:44 pm

Which of these accounts of the rescue of Private Lynch seems more plausible?

First this from the Toronto Star:
“‘The night [the Iraqi soldiers left the hospital],’ Houssona [her assigned doctor] said, ‘a few of the senior medical staff tried to give Jessica back. We carefully moved her out of intensive care and into an ambulance and began to drive to the Americans, who were just one kilometre away. But when the ambulance got within 300 metres, they began to shoot… Lynch’s father told reporters none of [her] wounds were battle-related. The Iraqi doctors are more specific. Houssona said the injuries were blunt, possibly stemming from a fall from her vehicle.”

Or do you believe this from Fox News:

“U.S. government sources told Fox News that they are concerned about Lynch’s mental and physical state, saying she can’t remember anything after the moment [her company] was ambushed nor can she remember anything about her days in captivity and the brutality U.S. military officials believe she endured.”

Also see yesterday’s posting about the destruction (or not) of the Iraq’s cultural heritage and this posting from earlier in the war about dubious information sources like the Baghdad blogger – who, incidentally, seems to have returned.25 ringtones centadbility entertainment gamblingcredit 1800 getcasino set 1925 complete noritakeringtone 17 hertzto addictions gamblingcredits 2008 energyno depsoit casino 1×2 Map