Keep digging.
Posted on 04/03/2003 3:03:29 AM PST by kattracks
Rescued U.S. soldier put up fierce fight - Wash Post
WASHINGTON, April 3 (Reuters) - Rescued U.S. soldier Jessica Lynch shot several Iraqi soldiers prior to her capture, firing her weapon until she ran out of ammunition, The Washington Post reported on Thursday, citing U.S. officials.
The 19-year-old Private First Class continued firing at the Iraqis even after she sustained multiple gunshot wounds and watched several other soldiers in her unit die around her, one official told the newspaper.
"She was fighting to the death," the official was quoted as saying. "She did not want to be taken alive."
Lynch arrived in Germany early on Thursday for treatment at an American military hospital. She was held as a prisoner of war by Iraq for more than a week until U.S. special forces freed her on Tuesday.
Lynch, who has two broken legs and one broken arm, was with a U.S. Army maintenance convoy ambushed by Iraqi forces on March 23 in the southern Iraqi city of Nassiriya.
One official said Lynch was stabbed when Iraqi forces closed in on her position, the newspaper said.
U.S. defense officials said they were aware of the report, but could not immediately confirm the details of Lynch's capture.
Officials told the newspaper that the precise sequence of events was still being determined and further information would emerge as Lynch is debriefed.
The report said the information about Lynch's ordeal was based on battlefield intelligence which officials said came from monitored communications and from Iraqi sources in whose reliability has yet to be assessed.
Lynch, from Palestine, West Virginia, arrived at the U.S. Ramstein air base in southwestern Germany early on Thursday aboard a U.S. Air Force C-17 transport plane.
The special forces also recovered the bodies of two U.S. soldiers in the raid at the Saddam Hospital north of the Euphrates river which runs through Nassiriya.
Lynch was one of 15 soldiers listed missing, captured or killed when a 507th Ordnance Maintenance Company convoy made a wrong turn and came under attack from Iraqi tanks and fighters.
Five of the captives, but not Lynch, were shown on Iraqi television as well as the bloodied bodies of up to eight men, prompting President George W. Bush to warn that anybody mistreating U.S. prisoners would be punished as "war criminals.
04/03/03 05:57 ET
Indeed, I did ... let me tell you why: The username draws the attention of posters, like you, who have no intelligent criticism to offer; they resort to attacking my username. You fell for the bait.
Thanks, but I'll read the reports before I comment.
No one (except maybe you) is accusing anyone of anything... we're commenting on possibilities.
You more than proved yourself on your original post. I'm done.
Keep digging.
A remarkably Clintonian answer, and one that doesn't hold up with the record.
Are you saying you didn't write the post I'm quoting below, over here?
Officials told the newspaper that the precise sequence of events was still being determined and further information would emerge as Lynch is debriefed.
Translation: “We are still concocting this story for maximum heroism, and Lynch still doesn’t have it straight.”
Now that I've refreshed your memory, are you accusing serving officers in the US Army of lying about the actions of PFC Lynch, or attempting to extract false statements from PFC Lynch?
Women have served in history as clerical/support, not in line of fire or other front line roles. Also this has been found in all other civilizations (that were healthy). Not putting women in dangerous front line roles is conservative, that is, to conserve ways that have proved to be compatable with the way men and women are, as proved time and time again throughout history.
Therefore putting women in harm's way in armed conflict, especially when there are so many men available, is a liberal position. The fact that socialism and it's more intense progeny, communism, are built on such as that make it a socialist position.
If you support that idea, which you do, you must be a liberal/socialist.
If you support that idea, which you do, you must be a liberal/socialist.
That might be the most moronic slippery slope argument I've seen yet.
Besides, "General", nothing in your trick bag makes you an expert, and according to a friend of mine I just got off the phone with, a female reserve major and veteran of GW1 (who incidentally participated in combat), she could likely kick your butt (fighting woman to weasel). The lady was unimpressed by your statements or credentials, in fact, kinda laughed.
Have a delightful day.
FU a-hole.
Of course, there are those who manage to combine both, such as asking such idiotic questions as: "...are you accusing serving officers in the US Army of lying about this event?"
You two have made this thread an interesting read.
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