Look, the Jessica Lynch thing failed because even though they tried to hold her up as a hero(heroine), they had to drop her like a hot potato when she testified that she had been raped multiple times by the religion of peace soldiers. They knew that that wouldn’t fly.
So, they need some horribly, critically wounded (better yet . . . killed) female, preferably a he/she that they can build a legend around.
The other woman captured during the first gulf war was also raped.