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	BBC NEWS \| Programmes \| Correspondent \| Saving Private Lynch story 'flawed'
		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.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/programmes/correspondent/3028585.stm (655 words)

	Jessica Lynch
		U.S. Army Private First Class Jessica Lynch (born April 26, 1983), of Palestine, West Virginia, was a prisoner of war of the Iraqi military in the 2003 invasion of Iraq who was rescued by United States forces on April 1, 2003.
		Lynch, then a 19-year-old supply clerk with the 507th Maintenance Company (based in Fort Bliss, Texas), was injured and captured by Iraqi forces after her group was ambushed on March 23, 2003 near Nasiriyah, a major crossing point over the Euphrates River northwest of Basra.
		Some time after Lynch's rescue, allegations surfaced that the story of Lynch's rescue was distorted and exaggerated by the United States government in an effort to undercut resistance to the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/je/Jessica_Lynch.html (1569 words)

	Jessica Lynch News
		Jessica Lynch is back in her safe and tidy West Virginia hamlet, rehabbing her fractured body, reshaping her idle career, reloading a 21-year-old life full of promise, purpose and, I'd suspect somewhere down the line, profit.
		Jessica Lynch, the wounded Army private whose ordeal in Iraq was hyped into a media fiction of U.S. heroism, was set for an emotional homecoming on Tuesday in a rural West Virginia community bristling with flags, yellow ribbons and TV news trucks.
		Jessica Lynch, the soldier rescued in a daring commando raid in Iraq, returned to the United States on Saturday to recover from her head-to-toe injuries at the Army's premier medical center.
	www.unitedjustice.com /jessica-lynch.html (6051 words)

	The Media: Saving Jessica Lynch's selective memory (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Jessica Lynch portrayed in this dramatization (which began with a disclaimer that scenes and events, in whole and in part, were recreated -- read rewritten), was not the gun-wielding heroine who was glorified in the early reports of her rescue, now known to be anti-climactic.
		While Saving Jessica Lynch might as well have been released by the Department of Defense for PR purposes, the film was not as bad as it could have been (Lynch does not fire her weapon while her convoy is ambushed, and looks more terrified and bewildered than heroic and courageous).
		Lynch herself has said that she is not a hero, and that her heroes are Lori Ann Piestewa and her other comrades who died in the ambush she survived.
	electroniciraq.net /news/1194.shtml (1606 words)

	LYNCH
		Lynch was rescued April 1, from an Iraqi hospital in Nasiriyah.
		Lynch was described as a "country girl" and had joined the Army because of the lack of jobs in rural West Virginia.
		Lynch emptied two revolvers at her attackers and was shot and stabbed before being taken prisoner of war.
	www.pownetwork.org /gulfII/lynch.htm (981 words)

	New York Daily News - Home - Fiends raped Jessica (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The scars on Lynch's battered body and the medical records indicate she was anally raped, and "fill in the blanks of what Jessi lived through on the morning of March 23, 2003," Bragg wrote.
		Lynch described to Bragg how Iraqi doctors were branded "traitors" by Saddam's henchmen for helping her and how they tried to treat her wounds in a shattered hospital where painkillers were scarce.
		Lynch's painful recovery from an ordeal that left her barely able to walk, unable to use her right hand or control her bowels is vividly described.
	www.nydailynews.com /front/story/134264p-119598c.html (648 words)

	The Populist Party - Jessica Lynch: I was used (Site not responding. Last check: )
		JESSICA LYNCH, the former US army supply clerk who became a national icon after her capture and rescue during the invasion of Iraq in 2003, says she was "used" by the Pentagon to "show the war was going great".
		Ms Lynch said that the television movie of her life was inaccurate.
		Ms Lynch, from Palestine, West Virginia, was a private in the US Army when she was captured in Iraq on March 23, 2003, near al-Nasiriyah, a crossing point over the Euphrates River.
	www.populistamerica.com /jessica_lynch__i_was_used (268 words)

	CNN.com - Jessica Lynch: 'It's great to be home' - Jul. 23, 2003
		A military report on the ambush said Lynch was injured when the Humvee in which she was riding was hit with a rocket-propelled grenade and crashed at high speed into the rear of an Army tractor-trailer.
		Lynch was taken to a hospital in Nasiriya and treated by Iraqi doctors.
		Lynch suffered three breaks in her left leg, multiple breaks in her right foot, a fractured disk in her back, a broken right upper arm and lacerations on her head, according to family spokesman Randy Coleman.
	www.cnn.com /2003/US/07/22/lynch.homecoming/index.html (1108 words)

	Jessica Lynch - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Jessica Dawn Lynch (born April 26, 1983 in Palestine, West Virginia), a Quartermaster Corps Private First Class (PFC) in the United States Army, was a prisoner of war of the Iraqi military in the 2003 invasion of Iraq who was rescued by United States forces on April 1, 2003.
		Lynch, then a 19-year-old supply clerk with the 507th Maintenance Company (based in Fort Bliss, Texas), was injured and captured by Iraqi forces after her group made a wrong turn and was subsequently ambushed on March 23, 2003 near Nasiriyah, a major crossing point over the Euphrates River northwest of Basra.
		Iraqi doctors at the hospital in question claimed Lynch was well cared for by hospital personnel and virtually unguarded at the time that she was rescued by American forces; rather, Lynch's "rescue" was a publicity stunt that was staged, and the subsequent news reports were carefully controlled propaganda, drawing on the captivity narrative genre.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jessica_Lynch (3038 words)

	The truth about Jessica \| Iraq \| guardian.co.uk
		Jessica Lynch became an icon of the war.
		Private Lynch, a 19-year-old clerk from Palestine, West Virginia, was a member of the US Army's 507th Ordnance Maintenance Company that took a wrong turning near Nassiriya and was ambushed.
		Iraqi soldiers took Lynch to the local hospital, which was swarming with fedayeen, where he was held for eight days.
	www.guardian.co.uk /Iraq/Story/0,2763,956255,00.html (1903 words)

	Metroactive News & Issues \| Jessica Lynch
		The Iraqi doctors say Jessica arrived with several fractures and a cut on her forehead, probably incurred when her vehicle overturned after it was hit by a rocket-propelled grenade.
		Jessica supposedly told her she was going to take her back to America with her.
		Lynch were corroborated by Pam Nicolais, a cousin serving as a spokesperson for the family, in an interview with the Herald Dispatch in Huntington, W.V. "That goes along with what Jessi told us," she told the paper.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/metro/05.22.03/lynch-0321.html (1906 words)

	The Jessica Lynch Corner
		Lynch and her cohort of 'combat' support troops, their conduct during the ambush, and the resulting death, captivity, and possible torture of Jessica Lynch.
		Lynch was sexually abused by the Iraqis during her captivity, it is transparently clear that she is being personally violated by radical feminists in the United States.The violation of Jessica Lynch has and is being perpetrated on a daily basis.
		But in the Lynch case, it would be a coverup that, if exposed, would completely debunk the 'heroism' of Jessica Lynch during her ordeal in the ambush and her subsequent captivity.
	www.newtotalitarians.com /TheJessicaLynchCorner.html (1824 words)

	Jessica Lynch 2003 Chronology - SourceWatch
		Jessica Lynch is injured in a Humvee crash during an ambush near Nasiriyah, Iraq.
		April 3: The Washington Post reports an exclusive story about Lynch's capture and heroic rescue from an Iraqi hospital under a front-page headline: "She was Fighting to the Death." The story details Lynch's alleged gun battle with Iraqi ambushers, in which she reportedly killed several attackers and sustained multiple gunshot wounds.
		CBS News, it says, sent Lynch a letter that included a pitch for a two-hour TV documentary, an offer from MTV for a possible news special, a music-video program or a concert in her honor with "a current star act such as Ashanti" in her hometown, and a potential book deal with Simon and Schuster.
	www.sourcewatch.org /wiki.phtml?title=Jessica_Lynch_2003_Chronology (1433 words)

	American Thinker: Media Lynch Mob
		Jessica Lynch was on Capitol Hill to talk about her experience in Iraq as a POW and subsequently as a media darling.
		Jessica Lynch, rescued Tuesday from an Iraqi hospital, fought fiercely and shot several enemy soldiers after Iraqi forces ambushed the Army's 507th Ordnance Maintenance Company, firing her weapon until she ran out of ammunition, U.S. officials said yesterday.
		Lynch, a 19-year-old supply clerk, continued firing at the Iraqis even after she sustained multiple gunshot wounds and watched several other soldiers in her unit die around her in fighting March 23, one official said.
	www.americanthinker.com /2007/04/media_lynch_mob.html (768 words)

	AlterNet: Saving Private Lynch Take 2
		Jessica Lynch, as reported by the U.S. military and a breathless American press.
		Lynch, who says she has no memory of the events in question, has suffered enough in the line of duty without being reduced to a propaganda pawn.
		Eight days after her capture, American media trumpeted the military's story that Lynch was saved by Special Forces that stormed the hospital and, in the face of heavy hostile fire, managed to scoop her up and helicopter her out.
	www.alternet.org /story.html?StoryID=15958 (948 words)

	THE JESSICA LYNCH STORY: THE POWER OF THE MIGHTY WURLITZER (Site not responding. Last check: )
		All we heard about at the time was how heroic Lynch was and how wonderful it was that she was rescued by a special forces team from the Iraqis who were holding her in a gulag-like hospital.
		Poor Jessica was essentially involved in a serious vehicular accident (her Humvee ran into an overturned truck in her convoy at a very high rate of speed).
		In fact, it appears the made-for-tv rescue was apparently unnecessary as the folks in the hospital had even tried to return her to a group of American soldiers the prior day.
	www.veteransforpeace.org /The_Jessica_Lynch_Story_061903.htm (1084 words)

	CNN.com - NBC to make movie about POW Jessica Lynch - Apr. 11, 2003
		The story of Jessica Lynch -- the U.S. soldier taken prisoner in Iraq and rescued in a daring operation -- is to be made into a television movie, with or without her family selling her story.
		Lynch is recovering from multiple wounds in a U.S. military hospital in Germany following her rescue last week in a night-time raid from a hospital in the southern Iraqi town of Nassiriya.
		Few details have emerged of Lynch's ordeal as a POW and her family has told competing media outlets they are not ready to discuss selling the rights to her story.
	www.cnn.com /2003/SHOWBIZ/TV/04/11/lynch.movie.reut (404 words)

	Jessica Lynch - FamousPicturesMagazine
		Jessica Lynch born April 26, 1983 in Palestine, West Virginia suffered a head laceration, an injury to her spine, and fractures to her right arm, both legs, and her right foot and ankle.
		As her condition stabilized Jessica's military captors ordered staff to transfer her to another hospital but on March 30, 2003 Dr Harith instead told the ambulance driver to take her to the advancing American forces but when the ambulance driver approached American forces they were fired upon forcing him to return Jessica to the hospital.
		Jessica returned to America with a hero’s welcome in her hometown, Palestine, West Virgina and her family and fiancé, Sgt. Ruben Contreras, who was also in the army.
	www.famouspictures.org /mag/index.php?title=Jessica_Lynch (2084 words)

	jessica-lynch
		One of Jessica Lynch's nurses, Khalida Shnan, in the room at Saddam Hussein general hospital where she spent most of her 10 days as a POW.
		Injured POW Jessica Lynch returns to U.S. Amid heavy security, former POW Jessica Lynch, center, is carried from a C-17 transport plane at Andrews Air Force Base, Md., Saturday, April 12, 2003, in transit to Walter Reed Army Medical Center to receive medical treatment from her injuries in Iraq.
		Lynch, 19, from Palestine, W.V., was captured March 23 after her 507th Maintenance Company convoy was ambushed in the southern Iraqi city of Nasiriyah.
	www.piczo.com /jessica-lynch?g=10939347&cr=4 (124 words)

	The Story of Private Jessica Lynch, a Heroine of Propaganda [Voltaire]
		Jessica Lynch’s truck died and she was put aboard the Humvee of First Sergeant Lori Pietsewa, a young Hopi American Indian, so that the convoy could continue its march.
		Lynch, who had a broken arm and femur, a wound in her head and a dislocated ankle, managed to get out of the vehicle unable to assess their accompaniers’ conditions and fell to her knees praying.
		Bragg said that Jessica Lynch was brutally raped after her capture but she could not remember anything because of the traumatic shock she suffered provoked by a partial amnesia.
	www.voltairenet.org /article30097.html (2721 words)

	Jessica Lynch - American Hero and First POW/MIA Rescued from Iraqi Freedom
		Jessica Lynch turned out to be a soldier worthy of the uniform, but not, as we were told she was, the poster child for women in the military.
		Born April 26, 1983 in Palestine, West Virginia to Greg and Dee Lynch, Jessica Dawn Lynch a former Quartermaster Corps Private First Class (PFC) in the United States Army, was a prisoner of war of the Iraqi military in the 2003 invasion of Iraq who was rescued by United States forces on April 1, 2003.
		Lynch, then a 19-year-old supply clerk with the 507th Maintenance Company (based in Fort Bliss, Texas), was injured and captured by Iraqi forces after her group made a wrong turn and was subsequently ambushed on March 23, 2003 near Nasiriyah, a major crossing point over the Euphrates River northwest of Basra.
	www.jessica-lynch.us (849 words)

	Jessica Lynch: Media Myth-Making in the Iraq War \| Project for Excellence in Journalism (PEJ)
		Lynch was also stabbed when Iraqi forces closed in on her position, the official said, noting that initial intelligence reports indicated that she had been stabbed to death…
		Jessica Lynch shifted overnight from victim to teenage Rambo: all the cable news shows ran with a report from The Washington Post that the 19-year-old P.O.W. had been shot and stabbed yet still kept firing at enemy soldiers.
		Lynch's father and her Army doctor have both said there is no evidence that she was shot or stabbed.
	www.journalism.org /node/223 (2998 words)

	PFC Jessica Lynch Homecoming
		Jessica Lynch told hundreds of well wishers who lined the streets of Elizabeth, W. Va., today to welcome the former POW home.
		Lynch then traveled the last five miles of her journey by motorcade to a private homecoming in her hometown of Palestine.
		Lynch went on to thank everyone who hoped and prayed for her safe return.
	userpages.aug.com /captbarb/lynch.html (642 words)

	Selling Pvt. Lynch - Salon.com
		After being used by the Pentagon, which planted a phony war story about Lynch "fighting to the death" during her capture, and by a White House that refused to correct the record when it became obvious the spin was fiction, Lynch moved into equally dangerous mass media waters.
		And Lynch's insistence on national television that she felt used by the Pentagon for making a show of her rescue and for telling absurd tales about her alleged heroics was just the latest cut at the White House's shrinking credibility when it comes to the war in Iraq.
		Lynch, wrote conservative commentator Chuck Muth, "is now being used by anti-war liberals to cast further doubt on America's mission in Iraq, instead of casting doubt on the dubious -- some would say outright stupid -- Army decision to put women in combat and harm's way in order to placate loud-mouthed feminists.
	dir.salon.com /story/news/feature/2003/11/15/lynch/index.html (1599 words)

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