Posted on 10/28/2003 5:35:33 AM PST by FreedomPoster
Edited on 04/29/2004 2:03:19 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
PALESTINE, West Virginia (AP) -- An Iraqi lawyer who helped U.S. forces in the rescue of Jessica Lynch wrapped up a tour of the soldier's hometown Monday with a trip to a garden planted in his honor.
"I will not forget. It will stay with me, in my mind, in my heart," Mohammed al-Rehaief said as a ceremonial yellow mum was planted.
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
Does Scott O'Grady ring a bell?
He wasn't a POW.
I know you read the article. The doctor quoted examined Lynch before she came home and his opinion is that her injuries were not consistent with injuries caused by car crashes. He stated the injuries may have been caused by rifle butts or stomping on her limbs. I will admit that she was unconscious so he could not get any history from her, therefor he does not know what happened. Still, I find his statement has value. You, however, have not linked the sources you reference even though asked.
What a tired sophomoric and unfortunately predictable tactic.
Since we're predicting, I predict you will pompously reply with some underhanded insult. It doesn't matter to whom you're responding.
PS Your posts to me do make me smile. Live with it.
You must've misunderstood my post. The person I was responding to said that Lynch wasn't a soldier. I said she was a soldier. That's what the question mark at the end of my post was for, I was asking that guy if he thought that only certain people are soldiers.
Ever consider how quickly his name was released with all of the details about his wife's job and how he took action? And,how quickly he got to this country and received protection and who knows what else and wrote a book and had it published.perhaps,he and his wife were oppurtunists,in which case not meeting him may have been taking the high road.
You are absolutely right. FReepers, please, it is not like you to jump to conclusions, especially based on a CNN story!
http://wowktv.com/news/index.cfm?newsItemID=621':
"Jessica wants to meet with Mohammed, but she wants that meeting to be private, without camera or reporters present. Jessica is confident her fellow West Virginians will understand her want for privacy and her need for time. Jessica has a desire to meet everyone who played a role in her rescue and looks forward to doing so in due time, with an absence of fanfare."
Miss Lynch has met the SEAL team who rescued her when they visited her at WRAMC. Here she says she will meet Mr. al Rehaief privately. Al Rehaief has been in the country since before Lynch returned from the hospital in Germany, yet he never visited her at Walter Reed, even though he is working in DC. He also didn't visit her hometown before now, even though she has been back since late July. His sudden visit at this time couldn't possibly have anything to do with the fact that his own book was just released could it? The timing sure makes it look that way. Where was he for the last seven months? Now that he has a book to promote and his NBC tv movie to promote (Lynch did not cooperate with NBC, but al Rehaief is a paid participant), suddenly he wants to get a photo op with Lynch. He is not a bad person for acting in his own self-interests, but neither is Lynch for prefering privacy. A joint public meeting would have been good pub for her book as well as his, wouldn't it?
Lynch's Iraqi rescuer wraps visit to her hometown (Lynch too busy to meet this guy!?)
Maybe Lynch knows more about this guy than you guys do, or maybe she never met him at all in Iraq. Hasn't it occurred to anyone that this Iraqi "rescuer" is a publicity hound looking to "score"? And no doubt is working with the Pentagon media spinmeisters.
The doctors who cared for Lynch have very different accounts of what happened to her; they didn't witness any abuse of Lynch, and they tried to drive her in an ambulance to give her to American troops, but were fired on and had to retreat back to the hospital. When Lynch was "rescued" the Iraqi soldiers were long gone, and no one was there but Lynch and her doctors and nurses and other patients.
The reality of the Lynch rescue was very different from what this puffed-up Iraqi media hound or the US military want us to believe. Lynch is probably too embarrassed to admit publicly that this guy is full of sh!t and that this is entirely a bogus story.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/945392/posts
Iraq: What Happened to Jessica Lynch?
NEWSWEEK July 21 issue — Details are surfacing that give insight into what happened to Pfc. Jessica Lynch and her comrades when their convoy made a wrong turn that resulted in the single greatest loss of American soldiers in the Iraq war. The U.S. Army last week released a long-awaited report on the 507th Maintenance Company, which suffered 11 killed and six taken prisoner on March 23 in An Nasiriya, Iraq. The unit's captain made a "single navigational error," the report says. Deep inside enemy territory, he retraced his route but was ambushed. When the 507th tried to fight off the attackers, many of its weapons jammed because of poor maintenance in the sandy conditions.
BUT THE REPORT avoids the details of the plight of Private Lynch, who's still undergoing rehabilitation after suffering multiple broken bones and spinal and head injuries. She's said she has no recollection of the event. The report seems to suggest Lynch was injured after her Humvee was hit by a rocket-propelled grenade and crashed into a truck in the convoy. The driver of the Humvee, Pfc. Lori Ann Piestewa, died of injuries she sustained, and two other occupants were killed under circumstances still under investigation, the report says.
NEWSWEEK has learned, however, that U.S. military intelligence officers believe Lynch's injuries were inflicted after she and other survivors surrendered. "This poor girl," said one Special Forces captain involved in her rescue. He's among three military intelligence sources who say she was standing when she surrendered, and had minor injuries at most. That was confirmed by Mehdi Kafaji, the Iraqi orthopedic surgeon who was in charge of her treatment at the hospital in An Nasiriya. "She had blunt-force trauma not consistent with what you'd expect from a car accident," Kafaji says. He adds that there was no sign of bullet wounds on her body, and her injuries appeared to have been inflicted by a severe beating, probably with numerous rifle butts. Her Fedayeen captors then took her to An Nasiriya's Saddam General Hospital. She told doctors she had not been sexually assaulted.
Lynch's dramatic rescue by American commandos on April 1, videotaped by a military camera crew, was criticized by hospital officials as unnecessary grandstanding, since the Iraqi intelligence agents guarding her had all fled two days earlier. Indeed, there was no armed resistance to her rescue. But two military intelligence officers involved in planning her rescue told NEWSWEEK they'd learned from "multiple sources" that Iraqi officials were pressuring doctors to amputate her leg so she could more easily be transported to Baghdad. Her injuries were so severe, it still would have been a risky trip. "Their attitude was, if she dies, she dies," says one intelligence officer. "That's when we decided, let's bring in the door kickers." —Rod Nordland
http://www.msnbc.com/news/938211.asp?cp1=1
Can you not ping me anymore? Thanx.
Nice try, but as long as you post inflammatory crud and I happen to see it, I'll ping you 'till your ears ring.
As for this "guy that most likely saved her pathetic ass," WTF are you talking about? Davis Tapper, the Navy SEAL who was instrumental in her rescue died on a subsequent mission in Afghanistan. Pfc. Patrick Miller, who did take out an Iraqi mortar position about to fire on Lynch's area was not killed, but captured: he is still alive. Sgt. Donald Walters, the soldier who happened to also have blond hair and was apparently mistaken for Lynch in intercepted Iraqi radio traffic, was shot, stabbed and beaten to death while fighting off his attackers, as Lynch was reported to have done. But he was far from Lynch, fighting his way down the highway, trying to save himself, not having anything to do with saving Lynch's "pathetic ass." Not that there's anything wrong with him trying to save himself. Who are you refering to. I know the names of all of the key players in the ambush and the roles they had, and I can't figure you out. Are you refering to 1st Sgt. Dowdy? If so, he doesn't fit your scenario either.
By the way, where have I "tried to convince" you that Miss Lynch is a "brave hero who deserves to be a highly decorated millionaire?" This thread was about her not meeting Mr. al Rehaief, the previous thread in which I unfortunately encountered you was about her foundation.
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