***Operation Iraqi Freedom - Situation Room - Day 14 - LIVE THREAD***

[spectr17]

It ain't been hot there yet. 80s is long way from 100 degrees.

The desert training I went through had us learning how to layer like those Bedoins to keep blazing sun from killing you.

[blondee123]

Anyone hear that Jessica was also shot on the back, a friend just emailed me & said she was shot in the back besides the broken bones.

[Fledermaus]

My brother stationed at Nellis in Vegas would laugh! lol

[spectr17]

I've heard several reports on CNN that said POW Jessica has multpile gunshot wounds.

[oceanperch]

4th Infantry in Kuwait.

Major assault in Najif Apache Attack Helies let go.

Basrah pics coming in getting bombed.
Large plumes of smoke.

[Amore]

Hey, just wanted to say that I love your screen name!

[blondee123]

Can you even imagine the pain she must have been in for all these days, you know the Iraqis did nothing for her!! She truly is a hearo at 19!

[Fledermaus]

That's quite nice of you, thanks.

[kcvl]

Lynch, a supply clerk with the 507th Maintenance Company from Fort Bliss, Texas, suffered multiple gunshot wounds in the ambush that led to her capture and had to be moved from the hospital with special care, Pentagon sources said.

[oceanperch]

So it is like shading your body.

[blondee123]

Yes, it's a statue of him. Actually, it's a great resemblence on his current state - stone cold!

Maybe not a statue, maybe it's Saddam "stuffed"!!

[kcvl]

Five of the captives, but not Private Lynch, were shown on Iraqi television as well as the bodies of up to eight men.

A military source said the facility where she was held was called the Saddam Hospital and was one mile north of the Euphrates river which runs through al-Nasiriyah.

Military officials would not discuss the fate of the other captives, but some reports have said her rescue team also brought out the bodies of up to 11 people believed to be US soldiers.

Private Lynch is said to be doing well, but it has been reported that she had suffered multiple gunshot wounds at some point during her ordeal that made it hard to move her.

[spectr17]

Breaking CNN,

Firemen in Hollywood CA called into to extract Rosie O'Porkchop who was found wedged in a bathroom stall at the Viper Room where she went to take massive dump. One fireman reported "We got a horse out of a well last week and we'll darn sure try and get this beast out."

And with that I'm out to la la land.

[Aaron0617]

Fox, CNN says they don't know who the 11 bodies are. MSNBC says all 11 are Americans. What gives?

[spectr17]

So it is like shading your body.

It's more about creating several layers of cooler and cooler air around you. The same for using a parachute say to make a shelter. Instead of one layer you create several layers to trap cooler and cooler air.

nite all.

[oceanperch]

Can't believe the traffic on the Bag Cam. How big is Baghdad?

[Fledermaus]

I want to hear more about the 9 Marines lost in the attempt.

This shouldn't be hidden from us. This is what the military does.

I still don't trust the politicos on this one. Why did they call a news conference and drag it out for 90 minutes. I'm afraid that was politics to counter the lies in the media on the "pause" and "plans" etc.

[this_ol_patriot]

Sky News says it appears she was reaching for something in the bowel and slipped on the wet floor.

[Fledermaus]

5 million citizens, less the ones that left because of the war

[kcvl]

"I'm not sure where she is, but I'm sure she is being looked at medically to make sure she is alright," said Jean Offutt, spokeswoman for the U.S. military at Fort Bliss, Texas, where Lynch was based.

"If she were wounded, she would be cared for until she were stable and then returned to the United States."

Military sources said on Wednesday U.S. Marines staged a decoy attack on targets in Nassiriya to allow special forces to rescue her from a hospital in the embattled southern city where U.S.-led forces have faced stiff resistance from Iraqi fighters.

"U.S. Marines sent a large force led by tanks and armored personnel carriers to hit targets in the center of the city and to seize a key bridge over the Euphrates while the hospital raid was under way," a military source said.

Brigadier General Vincent Brooks announced the rescue at command headquarters in Qatar at around 3 a.m. local time (7 p.m. EST Tuesday), telling reporters in a prepared statement:

"Coalition forces have conducted a successful rescue mission of a U.S. Army prisoner of war held captive in Iraq...The soldier has been returned to a coalition-controlled area."

Military officials would not discuss the fate of the other captives, but CNN reported that Lynch's rescue team also brought out the bodies of up to 11 people believed to be U.S. soldiers.

Jim Wilkinson, a spokesman for U.S. commander General Tommy Franks, said of the other POWs: "I can't get into operational details, but we have a lot more work to do. We have a lot more POWs that we are still worried about."

Wilkinson said Lynch was rescued around midnight Iraq time (4 p.m. EST Tuesday).

A military source told a Reuters reporter traveling with the Marines near Nassiriya the facility where Lynch was being held was called the Saddam Hospital and was one mile north of the Euphrates river which runs through the city.

The Marines' decoy attack involved a number of targets, including an artillery and air attack on a Baath party headquarters, which the source said was destroyed.

They also hit the home of a local Baath party official, a telecommunications cable repeater station and a headquarters of the Fedayeen paramilitary organization.

"These were all destroyed," the source said, adding that there were no injuries on the Marine side, which met little or no resistance from Iraqi forces.

In Washington, White House spokeswoman Suzy DeFrancis said President Bush was informed of the rescue in an afternoon briefing by Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and reacted by saying: "That's great."

Offutt said she understood Lynch had spoken with her parents. "They are very happy to hear from her, joyful."

"The fact that she was found gives a lot of the other parents hope," she added.

The military told the family Lynch had "walked into an Iraqi hospital" after going missing, but "we were told nothing else," relative Terri Edwards told Reuters.