What really happened to Jessica Lynch
Honorswar26
think that you will find it very interesting. I just got an email from a friend
whose cousin is a female naval aviator and a recent graduate of the SERE
school. SERE stands for Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape. They told her
exactly what happened to Jessica Lynch. My friend showed her this same letter.
She said that is was "most impressive". Please read and share....with lots of
people...as many as possible. The whole truth needs to be told.
Hello, Betsy.
I recently read your article concerning to politicization of Jessica Lynch. I
am a veteran of Desert Storm myself and was in a unit that had female soldiers,
one of which was the victim of an attempted assault by locals while we were
deployed to Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. Oddly enough, this same female lieutenant
has earlier been unwillingly pulled in front of a CNN camera by a Marine
Colonel because she happened to be the only female military person in the
entire Marine front line sector. She was in charge of an Army technical
intelligence team. Shortly after her appearance on CNN, she was promptly yanked
back to Dhahran.
Notably, I have been investigating as a private citizen what really happened to
Jessica Lynch for over six months now. I have developed numerous sources over
this period of time from the Internet as well as personal sources from the
military and intelligence communities. I am absolutely convinced that Jessica
Lynch was brutally raped, sodomized, beaten and tortured by her Iraqi captors.
I am also convinced that few, if any, of her injuries are due to the wreck of
the humvee that she was in.
Starting off with the wreck, I have seen the photo of the wrecked humvee.
Notably, the Pentagon didn't want that photo to be released. This is quite
probably due to the fact that it shows that the vehicle was not that badly
damaged, thus destroying the credibility of the story that Jessica's injuries
were due to the wreck. There is clearly no evidence of an RPG hit to the left
side of the vehicle. There is no major intrusion into the passenger compartment
where Jessica was sitting to cause crushing injuries. The vehicle had not
rolled over. In order words, there was nothing that could cause the multiple
severe fractures that Jessica eventually was found with. Add to this the fact
that Jessica had been deliberately surrounding by duffle bags to cushion the
impact and was not only wearing her kevlar helmet but was also wearing a kevlar
body armor vest and you find yourself quickly wondering how she actually got
all of those injuries. Obviously, the Army's official story that Jessica
received those horrific injuries in the wreck quickly begins to unravel.
Then we look at the multiple eyewitness reports that Jessica was removed from
her vehicle in sufficiently good condition that she was able to stand, then was
brutally beaten with rifle butts by Iraqi soldiers. Rod Nordland of Newsweek
reported this. The Iraqi lawyer who helped Jessica to be rescued and the
National Enquirer's Don Gentile (who I have spoken with on the phone) have also
written about Jessica being beaten after her removal from the humvee. If she
had all of those terrible injuries resulting from the wreck, a further beating
by Iraqi troops would have certainly been lethal to Jessica. The Army's offical
report talks of compassionate treatment of Jessica by the Iraqi's. Looking at
the supposed extent of her injuries from the wreck, in order for us to accept
the Army's story that her injuries came from the wreck, we have to view it in
the idealized lens of US emergency medicine....of a battered body gently pulled
from the wreckage and quickly taken to a well-equipped emergency medical
facility. This was not the case at all. There were at least three hours between
Jessica's initial capture and when she was taken to the small military hospital
known as the Hotel Faydeen. This delay would have been fatal for Jessica.
What my investigation has lead me to believe is that she was first taken to a
house not far from the ambush site. At that time she may or may not have been
unconscious from a kick to the head by one of the Iraqi soldiers. At that
house, all of her clothing except for her military t-shirt and possibly her bra
were removed and Jessica was brutally raped, sodomized, beaten and further
tortured. It is very possible that she was still conscious and continued to
resist, resulting in her being shot in the hip and leg by a pistol. These
wounds would likely be the cause of the open fractures of her left femur,
tibula and fibula.
Eventually, she was taken to the small military hospital where she received
some minimal medical treatment to stabilize her before she was moved to Saddam
Hospital. The Iraqi military officials instructed the doctors to do just enough
medical care to keep Jessica alive, nothing more. Because of the threat of
Jessica's broken femur severing the femoral artery, the Iraqi doctors had no
option but to do surgical repair of Jessica's femur, a surgery known as an
ORIF. They didn't do a very good job, but it stabilized that particular bone.
While the Iraqi doctors deny it as well as our own official reports, it
strongly appears that Jessica continued to be abused, perhaps even raped and
beaten even while she was in Saddam Hospital. Certainly during that time, she
was in critical condition. It is ironic that the Iraqi doctors would only admit
to Jessica having a broken leg, a broken arm, a dislocated ankle and a head
laceration. When we rescued Jessica, our doctors officially announced that she
had open fractures of the right humerous, right scapula, three broken ribs,
three broken bones in her back, open fractures of her left femur, tibula and
fibula, several fractures in her right foot, a broken right tibula and the head
laceration. But these are not all of her injuries, I have learned.
What has not been revealed is that Jessica also had severe internal injuries to
include a ruptured spleen and liver damage. But even more shocking was how
brutally her anus and vagina had been assaulted from multiple rapes and from
the insertion of objects so large as to badly tear both orifices. I have also
heard several reports of evidence of electrical shock torture being used on
Jessica's breasts and vagina as well as her being found with severe burns on
one or both of her nipples. All of these injuries certainly fall in line with
the historical practices of torture that the Iraqi's have used against female
captives. One final report that I have received was that Jessica received an
abortion sometime after her rescue as a result of becoming pregnant from the
rapes. From the way that the source presented this information to me and also
based on the manner in which Jessica was sequestered at both the German and US
military hospitals, I am very strongly inclined to believe it.
The whole issue of abortion has to be totally radioactive to the current
administration. Combine that with the impact on recruiting of females into the
military if the news of what really happened to Jessica Lynch is totally
revealed and this has to be a nightmare for both the administration and the
Pentagon. This is very likely the reason why the Pentagon decided to explain
Jessica's injuries as having come from the wreck. It is simply more convenient
for them. Besides, now they have a scapegoat to blame the ills of rear echelon
troops' lack of combat training on now.
Personally, I am sick of hearing people call Jessica Lynch a "Manufactured
Hero" who was simply banged up in a truck wreck, laid in a hospital bed and was
pampered by adoring Iraqi doctors until the Rangers showed up. True, her rifle
jammed early on during the ambush and she wasn't a female Rambo incarnate. But
she did resist her captors until she was literally crippled by them. She did
suffer through an ordeal that most would consider the stuff of nightmares. I
believe that she does deserve the honors that she has officially received. But
for her honor to be restored in the public's mind, for all of the questions,
rumors and innuendoes to be put behind Jessica, the whole ugly brutal truth
needs to come out.
Conventional wisdom is that sexual assault victims need silence, seclusion to
forget what happened to them and to move on. This is just plain wrong. Rape is
a crime of violence. It is intended by the rapist to "possess" his victim when
he attacks her. Rape in so many societies has tended to blame the victim as
much, if not more, than the attacker. It stigmatized the victim even those it
was the rapist who committed the crime. We need to break that view. Jessica
Lynch has absolutely nothing to be ashamed of. This is even more so the case
with the attitudes of the Middle East. For Jessica to reclaim her life and her
honor...and yes, even her very soul from her attackers, the truth needs to come
out. She needs to very publically tell the world that those bastards who
attacked her do not "own" her and that instead of taking her honor, instead
dishonored themselves through their actions. A growing number of rape support
organizations are encouraging this very thing to rape victims to come forth and
publically speak out and reclaim their lives from their attackers. I have to
say that I fully agree with that view having been the victim of a brutal
near-fatal assault and the brother of a woman who suffered as a teenager from a
long term period of sexual assaults.
I wish that I could tell Jessica all of these things myself face to face. I
hope that someone will finally cast aside the veil of silence about what really
happened to Jessica. Will you help?
Since this letter was written to Betsy Hart, I have also learned that Jessica
was also terribly abused with her nipples badly burned with electrical shocks
and the application of lit cigars on them. Also various objects were inserted
into her anus and vagina to include fists and bats. The gunshot wounds were to
her left leg, hip, right arm and perhaps also her left breast as well. This
only scratches the surface of the horrific things that were done to Jessica
Lynch while she a POW however. It is known that the Iraqi's videotaped
Jessica's "interrogation" and that copies of this are in the possession of
Western intelligence services such as MI-6.
J
Pensacola Beachcomber
Question: Would this possibly be a letter written by Lt. Sheila Hurry from
the FMIG during Desert
Storm I? She is now out of military, married to an FBI Agent and last known
to be in Orlando, Fla area.
It's tough reading something well written and possibly true that isn't
attributed to an author by name.
Just wondering and hoping this isn't an urban legend.
Regards from Pensacola, home of the Blue Angels.
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Jeff
conspiracy theorist are every where.
loki
> You need to get a grip conspiracy theorist are every where.
Nah, he's just hoping the video's are out there so he can watch them.
Do me a favor (even if I am fairly new around here, I have posted before)
next time you feed the trolls, please snip their comments first.
Loki
John Chene
Here is a copy of a letter that I wrote to a national columnist
I'd recomend that you abandon this line of inquiry, sir. This will
never be acknowledged publicly by the the Army. Take satisfaction that
you have uncovered some of the facts and keep it to yourself. Lynch's
book will not confirm the results of your investigation. She was not
medically discharged, as first reported, you see, but rather placed on
Temporary Disablilty Retirement. This was not done with the hope of
her ever being able to return to active duty, but rather to keep
control over what she writes in her book and says in her tv
interviews. Furthermore, the Army has assisted NBC's tv movie project,
"Saving Jessica Lynch" by providing for the use of military vehicles
and aircraft and weapons for the filming in exchange for approval of
the script. The Army has an iron grip on every source that this story
could leak out of and they intend that it stay quiet. The reason I am
saying you should desist is the recent series of deaths of person's
involved in the extraction of Lynch. They are a potential source of
leaks. Private citizens poking around may also be putting themselves
at risk. Take care.John C.
loki
. The reason I am
> saying you should desist is the recent series of deaths of person's
> involved in the extraction of Lynch. They are a potential source of
> leaks. Private citizens poking around may also be putting themselves
> at risk. Take care.John C.
Oh, please. You just classify it and if anyone talks they go to
Leavenworth. <shakes head> Do you really believe this conspiracy stuff?
Loki
Colin Campbell
Remember that conspiracy theories are belief systems. The facts do
not matter as some theory will be developed to explain away the
absence of evidence supporting the theory.
Basically they are saying: "The fact that there is no evidence to
support my theory proves that there is a conspiracy to suppress the
evidence."
They never see the logical flaw.
--
There can be no triumph without loss.
No victory without suffering.
No freedom without sacrifice.
John Chene
Oh, please. You just classify it and if anyone talks they go to
Leavenworth. <shakes head> Do you really believe this conspiracy
stuff? Loki
Classify it and you might as well just announce that you are
covering something up. What, if the Lynch cover story were true, would
be necessary to classify? That she was injured in a vehicle wreck and
treated well by the Iraqis? That would be a National Secret? No, they
release the cover story and ziplock the facts.
loki
>
> Classify it and you might as well just announce that you are
> covering something up. What, if the Lynch cover story were true, would
> be necessary to classify? That she was injured in a vehicle wreck and
> treated well by the Iraqis? That would be a National Secret? No, they
> release the cover story and ziplock the facts.
Yeah, and the idea of a POW being badly treated, tortured or whatever is
something to hide because it never happens and if it did, the world would be
shocked.
Right. Tell that to someone I knew who was part of the German "medical"
experiments during WWII.
You make no sense either way.
Loki
John Chene
Iraqis raped Lynch during her captivity, book reveals
NY Daily News
BY PAUL D. COLFORD AND CORKY SIEMASZKO
New York Daily News
NEW YORK - (KRT) -
Jessica Lynch was brutally raped by her Iraqi captors. That is the
shocking revelation in "I Am a Soldier, Too," the much-anticipated
authorized biography of the former POW. A copy of the book was
obtained by The New York Daily News on Wednesday. Best selling author
Rick Bragg tells Lynch's story for her, often using her own words.
Thankfully, she has no memory of the rape. "Jessi lost three hours,"
Bragg wrote. "She lost them in the snapping bones, in the crash of the
Humvee, in the torment her enemies inflicted on her after she was
pulled from it." The scars on Lynch's battered body and the medical
records indicate she was anally raped, and "fill in the blanks of what
Jessi lived through on the morning of March 23, 2003," Bragg wrote.
"The records do not tell whether her captors assaulted her almost
lifeless, broken body after she was lifted from the wreckage, or if
they assaulted her and then broke her bones into splinters until she
was almost dead."
The 207-page saga published by Knopf hits bookstores Tuesday, which is
Veterans Day. In it, America's most famous G.I. - for the first time
since her dramatic rescue on April 1 - dispels some of the mystery
surrounding the blistering battle that resulted in her capture, her
treatment by the Iraqis in a hellish hospital, and the searing pain
that is her constant companion. A 20-year-old from the hollers of West
Virginia, Lynch knew what could happen to her if she fell into Iraqi
hands. A female pilot captured in the Persian Gulf War had been raped.
"Everyone knew what Saddam's soldiers did to women captives," Bragg
wrote. "In (Lynch's) worst nightmares, she stood alone in that desert
as the trucks of her own army pulled away." The nightmare became real
in the dusty and dangerous city of Nassiriyah, when Lynch's unit got
separated from its convoy and was ambushed by Iraqi fighters.
Lynch described to Bragg how Iraqi doctors were branded "traitors" by
Saddam's henchmen for helping her and how they tried to treat her
wounds in a shattered hospital where painkillers were scarce. She said
one nurse tried to ease her agony by singing to her. "It was a pretty
song," she said. "And I would sleep." Lynch also confirmed reports in
the book that Iraqi doctors tried to sneak her to safety in an
ambulance but turned back when wary U.S. soldiers opened fire on them.
But eight days after she was captured, Lynch found herself face to
face with a savior. "Jessica Lynch," he said, "we're United States
soldiers and we're here to protect you and take you home." "I'm an
American soldier, too," Lynch replied.
Lynch's painful recovery from an ordeal that left her barely able to
walk, unable to use her right hand or control her bowels is vividly
described. So, too, is Lynch's discomfort with the spotlight - and
with being called a hero. "I'm just a survivor," she said in the
book. "When I think about it, it keeps me awake at night." ---
© 2003, New York Daily News.
http://www.centredaily.com/mld/centredaily/news/7193213.htm
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