Jessica fought back....a true American hero!
Posted: Thu Apr 03, 2003 2:08 am
The more I learn about former POW Jessica Lynch, the more amazed I become..
This is an excerpt of an AP newswire story I just ran across. She is one gutsy young lady!!
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The 507th was attacked March 23 during some of the earliest fighting in Nasiriyah, where Saddam's Fedayeen loyalists and other Iraqi fighters are said to have dressed as civilians and ambushed Americans.
Lynch fought fiercely and shot several enemy soldiers during the ambush. She fired her weapon after she had several gunshot wounds and kept firing until she ran out of ammunition, The Washington Post reported in Thursday's editions.
She watched several soldiers in her unit die and was stabbed when Iraqi forces closed in on her position, The Post quoted U.S. officials as saying. Pentagon officials and family members contacted late Wednesday declined comment on the report.
Not long after the fighting, five of Lynch's fellow soldiers showed up in Iraqi television footage being asked questions by their captors. The video also showed bodies, apparently of U.S. soldiers, leading the Pentagon to accuse Iraq of executing some POWs.
In Tuesday's raid, U.S. forces engaged in a firefight on the way into and out of the hospital but there were no coalition casualties, Brooks said. He said they found ammunition, mortars, maps and a terrain model at the hospital, along with "other things that made it very clear it was being used as a military command post."
"Some brave souls put their lives on the line to carry this out," Brooks said.
As soon as they rolled into the hospital compound, civilian patients and medical staff began emerging with their hands up. Most were allowed to leave, or to return to the building for treatment.
An Iraqi pharmacist who works at Saddam Hospital told Britain's Sky television that he treated Lynch for leg injuries but that she was otherwise healthy. But he added, "every day I saw her crying about wanting to go home."
The pharmacist, who gave his name only as Imad, said Lynch knew the U.S. troops were on the other side of the Euphrates River and "she kept wondering if the American Army were coming to save her."
AP-ES-04-03-03 0003EST
This is an excerpt of an AP newswire story I just ran across. She is one gutsy young lady!!
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The 507th was attacked March 23 during some of the earliest fighting in Nasiriyah, where Saddam's Fedayeen loyalists and other Iraqi fighters are said to have dressed as civilians and ambushed Americans.
Lynch fought fiercely and shot several enemy soldiers during the ambush. She fired her weapon after she had several gunshot wounds and kept firing until she ran out of ammunition, The Washington Post reported in Thursday's editions.
She watched several soldiers in her unit die and was stabbed when Iraqi forces closed in on her position, The Post quoted U.S. officials as saying. Pentagon officials and family members contacted late Wednesday declined comment on the report.
Not long after the fighting, five of Lynch's fellow soldiers showed up in Iraqi television footage being asked questions by their captors. The video also showed bodies, apparently of U.S. soldiers, leading the Pentagon to accuse Iraq of executing some POWs.
In Tuesday's raid, U.S. forces engaged in a firefight on the way into and out of the hospital but there were no coalition casualties, Brooks said. He said they found ammunition, mortars, maps and a terrain model at the hospital, along with "other things that made it very clear it was being used as a military command post."
"Some brave souls put their lives on the line to carry this out," Brooks said.
As soon as they rolled into the hospital compound, civilian patients and medical staff began emerging with their hands up. Most were allowed to leave, or to return to the building for treatment.
An Iraqi pharmacist who works at Saddam Hospital told Britain's Sky television that he treated Lynch for leg injuries but that she was otherwise healthy. But he added, "every day I saw her crying about wanting to go home."
The pharmacist, who gave his name only as Imad, said Lynch knew the U.S. troops were on the other side of the Euphrates River and "she kept wondering if the American Army were coming to save her."
AP-ES-04-03-03 0003EST
