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Jessica Lynch Raped?
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| Shakka |
I really don't know how much of this, if any, is true, but it sure sounds like media sensationalism/propoganda to me. They milk it for all it's worth and then some. Now if this stuff really did happen, then it's terrible and disgusting. Nonetheless, I hate how the bloodthirsty media jumps all over these things so opportunistically.
http://www.ajc.com/news/content/news/1103/06lynch.html#
| quote: | NEW YORK -- The authorized biography of former prisoner of war Pfc. Jessica Lynch says she was raped by her Iraqi captors, a family spokesman said Thursday.
"The book does cover the subject," spokesman Stephen Goodwin told The Associated Press. "It's a very difficult subject."
The book -- "I am a Soldier, Too: The Jessica Lynch Story" -- is being released by Knopf publishing on Tuesday, Veterans Day. Reporter Rick Bragg, who wrote the book, tells Lynch's story.
Medical records cited in the book indicate that she was raped, the Daily News of New York reported in its Thursday editions. Officials have said Lynch has no memory of her ordeal.
"Jessi lost three hours. 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," writes Bragg, according to the Daily News, which obtained a copy of the book.
"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," Bragg continues.
On ABC's "Good Morning America" host Diane Sawyer also gave details of the contents.
"The book does indeed cite some intelligence reports that she was treated brutally and a medical record which says, in the book, that she was a victim of a sodomizing rape," Sawyer said.
In confirming the reports, family spokesman Goodwin told the AP: "It's important to tell the story and let it be known, but she's not going to talk about it any more."
Another family representative said it was unfortunate attention was being focused on one incident.
"The complete story of her capture is a very painful one for Jessica," family spokeswoman Aly Goodwin Gregg told the AP. "However, she felt it was important to tell her story so that people fully understand the atrocities of war. But her story is more than just one incident."
Knopf spokesman Paul Bogaards would not elaborate, telling The Associated Press that it was "just one chapter in a vivid story of a soldier's life."
Bragg declined to comment to the AP.
Sawyer's interview with Lynch will air Tuesday in a special edition of ABC's "Primetime."
Sawyer also addressed reports that Lynch's book casts doubt on the claim of an Iraqi lawyer, Muhammad al-Rehaief, that he helped U.S. Marines rescue Lynch.
"She says that he may indeed have helped her," Sawyer said. "If he did, she's grateful, but she simply does not remember him and she remembers most everybody that she spent time with during her hospital captivity."
Lynch, 20, was shipped to Kuwait in January with the 507th Maintenance Company. She was captured March 23 after her convoy was ambushed in the southern Iraqi city of Nasiriyah. She was rescued from an Iraqi hospital April 1 by U.S. forces.
She plans to marry Army Sgt. Ruben Contreras in June.
Bragg has written several books, including the memoir "All Over but the Shoutin'," and won the Pulitzer Prize for feature writing in 1996 while at The New York Times. He resigned from the Times in May after the newspaper suspended him over a story that carried his byline but was reported largely by a freelancer. |
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| occrider |
| quote: | Originally posted by Shakka
I really don't know how much of this, if any, is true, but it sure sounds like media sensationalism/propoganda to me. They milk it for all it's worth and then some. Now if this stuff really did happen, then it's terrible and disgusting. Nonetheless, I hate how the bloodthirsty media jumps all over these things so opportunistically.
http://www.ajc.com/news/content/news/1103/06lynch.html# |
I'm not so sure I feel sorry for her, she's jumping on this thing herself. Notice the timing of this news release. It comes out right before her freaking movie and she let's everybody know that it's in her book. She's living out the american dream of telling her "story". |
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| 'mju:zik |
if it is true, it really shows the difference between an educated, civilized, and moral society and a barbaric and brainwashed society.
that really pisses me off.
and it said in an article that it wasn't in her book?? so I don't know how much of a publicity stunt this is. |
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| Nadi |
| quote: | Originally posted by 'mju:zik
if it is true, it really shows the difference between an educated, civilized, and moral society and a barbaric and brainwashed society.
that really pisses me off.
and it said in an article that it wasn't in her book?? so I don't know how much of a publicity stunt this is. |
Not really. As sad as it is, stuff like that happens in all the "civilized" countries(U.S/Europe/Everywhere else). |
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| arctic |
| quote: | Originally posted by occrider
I'm not so sure I feel sorry for her, she's jumping on this thing herself. Notice the timing of this news release. It comes out right before her freaking movie and she let's everybody know that it's in her book. She's living out the american dream of telling her "story". |
Wasn't all the sensatiolist 'rescue' story pretty much faked?
As it was reported down here, she was supposedly treated very well by her Iraqi captors, and was not under armed guard when the US came blazing in. They apparently claimed they had 'rescued' her when in fact she could have just walked out if she was well enough.
Or so we were led to believe :conf: |
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| Renegade |
| quote: | | This is going to be a bit of a sexist comment, but I can't understand countries which send women to serve near the front (well, my country did it too in WWII, so I don't get my country either). |
I'm pretty sure she wasn't serving near the front. She had some office job, but just happened to be in a truck that was ambushed by Iraqi troops. |
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| occrider |
| quote: | Originally posted by Renegade
I'm pretty sure she wasn't serving near the front. She had some office job, but just happened to be in a truck that was ambushed by Iraqi troops. |
Yea, woman are not allowed to serve on the front in direct combat. This is particularly frustrating for women who want to be combat pilots and such. She was part of a supply batallion who's job was to merely supply front line troops and managed to get horrendously lost. |
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| dj adagnitio |
| quote: | Originally posted by arctic
Wasn't all the sensatiolist 'rescue' story pretty much faked?
As it was reported down here, she was supposedly treated very well by her Iraqi captors, and was not under armed guard when the US came blazing in. They apparently claimed they had 'rescued' her when in fact she could have just walked out if she was well enough.
Or so we were led to believe :conf: |
That was my memory to. This whole story sounds somewhat contrived to me. |
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| bass drive |
blah...
why do Americans love drama so much????
some non-American articles about this Lynch "hero"
From BBC
Telegraph UK
Those book aint gonna be sold by them selves you know.. |
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| ZinG |
| quote: | Originally posted by 'mju:zik
if it is true, it really shows the difference between an educated, civilized, and moral society and a barbaric and brainwashed society.
that really pisses me off.
and it said in an article that it wasn't in her book?? so I don't know how much of a publicity stunt this is. |
u must be living in the Vatican
oops
i heard they do worse than that there too:p |
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| arctic |
| quote: | Originally posted by bass drive
blah...
why do Americans love drama so much????
some non-American articles about this Lynch "hero"
From BBC
Telegraph UK
Those book aint gonna be sold by them selves you know.. |
That's the sort of stuff that was reported in some mainstream media down here (Australia) as well. Basically it seemed to be a sham, as was the whole episode of 'Iraq rejoicing' over the statue of sadam being pulled down. |
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| DaveSaenz |
A US woman soldier who shot to fame after being taken prisoner during the Iraq war has accused the military of using her for propaganda purposes.
A video of US commandos carrying a badly injured Private Jessica Lynch from a Nasiriya hospital was released at the height of the conflict.
But the 20-year-old criticised the release of false information about her capture by Iraqi forces.
She also said there was no reason for her rescue to be filmed.
In her first interview about what happened to her, the former prisoner-of-war told ABC television that medical reports indicated that she had been raped.
She said she had no recollection of the attack. "Even just the thinking about that, that's too painful," she told interviewer Diane Sawyer.
Miss Lynch, who was serving as an Army supply clerk, suffered broken bones and other injuries when her convoy was ambushed after taking a wrong turn near the Iraqi town of Nasiriya on 23 March.
The Pentagon initially put out the story that Private Lynch - a slight woman who was just 19 at the time - had been wounded by Iraqi gunfire but had kept fighting until her ammunition ran out.
But she told Sawyer that she was just in the wrong place at the wrong time, and that her gun had jammed during the chaos.
"I'm not about to take credit for something I didn't do," she said.
"I did not shoot - not a round, nothing. I went down praying to my knees - that's the last thing I remember."
Initial reports also suggested that Miss Lynch had been abused after she came round in the hospital. She says that again was untrue - there was no mistreatment, and one nurse used to sing to her.
She said she was grateful to the American special forces team which rescued her but, asked whether the Pentagon's subsequent portrayal of her rescue bothered her, she said: "Yes, it does. They used me as a way to symbolise all this stuff. It's wrong."
Injuries
Miss Lynch was awarded the Bronze Star, Purple Heart and Prisoner of War medals while still in hospital in Washington DC.
Months later, she is receiving treatment for her extensive injuries.
Earlier this week, it emerged that medical evidence suggested that Miss Lynch had been raped during her capture.
The assault was revealed in extracts from Miss Lynch's authorised biography - I am a Soldier, Too: The Jessica Lynch Story - to be released by publisher Alfred A Knopf on Tuesday.
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3251731.stm |
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