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From the Associated Press |
Lynches Say They Can't Discuss
POW Rescue
By ALLISON BARKER
Associated Press Writer
PALESTINE, W.Va. (AP) - American POW Pfc. Jessica Lynch's parents said
Thursday they are not permitted to discuss details of their daughter's
capture and rescue in Iraq.
Greg and Deadra Lynch also said they couldn't comment on media reports
that dispute military information released on Lynch's April 1 rescue from
an Iraqi hospital.
``It is still an ongoing investigation,'' Greg Lynch said during a news
conference at the family's rural West Virginia home.
The Army supply clerk is being treated at a Washington, D.C., hospital
for injuries suffered when her convoy was ambushed.
Some Iraqi hospital staffers said this month that the U.S. commandos
who came to get Lynch refused a key and instead broke down doors and went
in with guns drawn, and that they carried away the prisoner in the dead of
night with helicopter and armored vehicle backup - even though there was
no Iraqi military presence and the hospital staff didn't resist.
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