[Cicero]

She was in "stable" condition, with broken arms and a broken leg in addition to the gunshot and stab wounds, sources said.

Those don't sound like normal war wounds. I expect she was roughed up after she was captured. It's a miracle she is still alive.

[twigs]

Those don't sound like normal war wounds.

A former interlligence officer I heard on the radio last night said that the Iraqi's were breaking her bones and that Jessica was probably several broken bones away from joining her fellow soldiers underground. Her take was that they were going to kill her slowly and that her rescuers saved her life.