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NEW YORK - Graphic video footage of a badly injured Jessica Lynch and Lori Piestewa, who may have died shortly afterward, was taken by Iraqi state television following the ambush of the soldiers' Army convoy, NBC reported Tuesday night. The video, aired on "NBC Nightly News," shows the two Army privates at the hospital where they were taken following the March 23 ambush of the 507th Maintenance Co. The tape was never aired in Iraq, NBC reported. Piestewa, her face swollen and bruised and her head loosely bandaged, is shown as someone positions her feet, and then her head, for...

WASHINGTON - Pvt. Jessica Lynch was "disappointed" to learn yesterday that she might get more disability pay than a friend who was wounded and captured in the same battle. Spec. Shoshana Johnson, who was shot in both ankles and displayed on Iraqi TV during the war, will get 30% disability pay when she is discharged next week. Lynch, who has signed a book deal and is negotiating movie rights, got 80% when she left the Army in August. "I am so disappointed for Shoshana," Lynch said yesterday from her home in Palestine, W.Va. "I support her efforts 100%" to get...

<p>Spc. Shoshanna Johnson took the attention in stride Sunday, chatting with well-wishers who asked her to sign autographs or to pose for photographs.</p> <p>A 30-year-old cook from El Paso, Texas, Johnson gained unwanted fame when she and seven soldiers in her unit, the 507th Maintenance Company out of Fort Bliss, Texas, were captured March 23 when their convoy was ambushed by Iraqis at Nasiriyah. Ten of her fellow soldiers were killed.</p>