Here's the original WaPo article by steno Sue Schmidt. Note all the refrences to US Officials. Someone or some people at centcom or in the military were pushing this BS. That or Sue Schmidt made all of this up. Seeing as how centcom did nothing to correct the WaPo account at the time, everything points to the government being in on this one.
Yeah. [anonymous] US Officials said...One [un-named] US Official...an [unknown] officer claimed. Great work uncovering incontrovertible "proof" it came from US Military sources.
Some of the story may have just been an example of mistaken identity, not just a fabrication.
Hmm, that is actually very interesting.
It's through this report and other sources the Walters think their son's heroics were likely lost in a bad translation of Iraqi radio communications.
"I'm thinking that what was reported, whatever Jessica Lynch did, was (actually) my son. That's what it all points to," said Norman Walters.
"If you recall when they first started talking about Jessica they said she was shot in the leg and stabbed in the stomach. Don was shot in the leg and stabbed in the stomach," said Arlene Walters.
In fact the autopsy said Walters was shot twice in the back. He was shot once in the leg had a dislocated left shoulder and he was stabbed twice in the stomach.
His body was found buried outside the hospital where Jessica Lynch was found alive.
As BaliBabyDoc should be able to attest to, the accounting of events even in public shootings and motor vehicle accidents can change as the story is related from the victims and witnesses to the first responders, from the first responders to the emergency room personnel, from the emergency room personnel to the surgical personnel, and any one of those versions is often different from the one you read about in the newspaper the following day.
Its not at all difficult to believe that someone misinterpreted a frantic radio message. I recall it was reported there was a special forces or reconnaissance unit of some type watching the entire ambush unfold through binoculars but they were a few miles away and could do nothing. So let's say they see one member of the maintenance company fighting back, this reconnaissance unit is relaying this information to command, or a member of the maintenance unit is on the radio calling for help while gun shots are heard in the back ground, someone misinterprets that radio communication because it sounds like there is a fire fight.
Or whatever. There are a few very plausible and believable scenarios.
Lynch's rescue is akin to the emergency transport of a MVC (motor vehicle crash) from a podunk community hospital to a Level 1 trauma center. Granted, I imagine an M-16 might expedite transfer orders from slow poke Nazi clerks.
Hardly. The hospital at which Lynch was held served as an Iraqi military post. Iraqi military units used the basement of the hospital and had cleared-out only a few hours before the rescue. They sent that much firepower in for a reason. That they didn't have to use that firepower is actually not unusual for these kinds of military ops, particularly special forces, who often conduct raids and body-snatches without having to fire a shot. But bring firepower and prepare for battle they do - always.
I wasn't all that moved by the video. It looked not much different from any standard training op to me.
Who ran wild with the Lynch story? Oh yeah, that's right -the media(and it wasn't just FOX
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