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Search results for jessica lynch: 11 matches
2007-04-25 DOCUMENT SHOWS RUMSFELD STAFFER SOUGHT INFORMATION ON TILLMAN.
A House committee that held a hearing Tuesday on wrong and misleading information given about the death of Pat Tillman and the rescue of Jessica Lynch has released information from the four boxes of uncensored documents the Defense Department gave Congress last week. It includes an internal e-mail indicating a speechwriter for ex-Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld called the Army for information six days after Tillman's death, the San Francisco Chronicle reports.
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2007-04-24 HOUSE PANEL HOLDS HEARING ON MILITARY MISINFORMATION.
An Army Ranger told a House panel today that he was ordered not to tell Pat Tillman's family that the former football star died from friendly fire in 2004. Army Specialist Bryan O'Neal said his battalion commander made clear he would "get in trouble" if he told Tillman's brother, Kevin, who was in a convoy behind Pat Tillman when he was shot, that the death was due to friendly fire. O'Neal testified as part of a hearing before a House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform hearing into military misinformation. Tillman's family members told the panel they believe high-ranking officials, including then-Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, were actively thwarting them from learning the truth. Army private Jessica Lynch also testified about how the story of her ambush in Iraq was turned into a tale of heroism. "The bottom line is the American people are capable of determining their own ideals of heroes and they don't need to be told elaborate tales," Lynch said.
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2007-04-10 HOUSE PANEL TO EXAMINE TILLMAN, LYNCH MISINFORMATION.
A House committee has announced it will examine how the Defense Department spread false information about the capture of Army private Jessica Lynch and the friendly-fire death of Pat Tillman, who left the NFL to join the Army. Pentagon officials, Lynch and Tillman's family members are expected to testify at the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing, scheduled for April 24.
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2003-11-10 CONTROL THE IMAGES, CONTROL HISTORY.
In a lengthy column Sunday, New York Times writer Frank Rich examines "image control" in the war in Iraq, speculating that those who control the images and the "narratives they encapsulate," control history. The administration, he writes, tries to shut down pictures of flag draped coffins as effectively as it has stonewalled Congressional committees and bipartisan commissions examining failures in intelligence before Sept. 11. He also recounts the government's uses and misuses of the Jessica Lynch story to enhance public relations.
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2003-07-28 LYNCH HOMECOMING PAINFUL FOR DEAD SOLDIER'S FAMILY.
For millions of Americans, Private Jessica Lynch's return to her home town of Elizabeth, West Virginia, was a moment of high emotion, a happy ending to one of the darkest incidents of the Iraq war. For Arlene Walters, however, the standing ovation and praise lavished on the young woman soldier, who was captured by Iraqi forces and later freed in a dramatic American raid, served only to highlight the contrasting treatment of her dead son, Sgt. Donald Walters, who fought in the same unit. The Telegraph in London reports that Walters believes the U.S. Army (and the media) have not done enough to publicize the fact that her son was the real hero the day Lynch was captured.
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2003-07-09 JESSICA LYNCH REPORT SUMMARY RELEASED
A 15-page report on the accident that wounded Jessica Lynch and other American soldiers leaving several dead outlines the details of what happened in the highly publicized -- and miscommunicated -- encounters between American soldiers and Iraqis. According to The (Portland) Oregonian, families received copies of the executive summary report and made them available to news media. The summary is scheduled for disclosure tomorrow. The Associated Press reported that it only lays out what happened from the time that the 507th Mainenance Company left Kuwait behind invading combat forces until the incident March 23 and makes no assessment of fault.
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2003-06-17 POST DELVES DEEPER INTO STORY OF LYNCH RESCUE.
The Washington Post, first to report U.S. military sources saying that American soldier Jessica Lynch heroically fought off her captors, today published a detailed investigation into the facts of the Lynch capture and rescue. The Post reported:
Lynch's story is far more complex and different than those initial reports. Much of the story remains shrouded in mystery, in large part because of official Army secrecy, concerns for Lynch's privacy and her limited memory.
The Post's initial coverage attracted widespread criticism because many of the sources were unnamed and because the accounts were soon contradicted by other military officials.
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The result [of the new Post investigation] is a second, more thorough but inconclusive cut at history. While much more is revealed about her ordeal, most U.S. officials still insisted that their names be withheld from this account.
Lynch tried to fire her weapon, but it jammed, according to military officials familiar with the Army investigation. She did not kill any Iraqis. She was neither shot nor stabbed, they said.
The Post also confirmed that when troops stormed an Iraqi hospital to rescue Lynch it was largely unguarded, and added, "Two U.S. officials with knowledge of the Army investigation said Lynch was mistreated by her captors. They would not elaborate." The account also questions parts of the story told by Mohammed Odeh Rehaief, an Iraqi lawyer who played a role in the rescue and who has been given political asylum in the U.S.
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2003-06-09 LYNCH STORY DEBUNKING DEBUNKED.
Mark Bowden, author of "Black Hawk Down," speculates in The New York Times that the Pentagon did not manufacture inflated stories of the rescue of Private Jessica Lynch from an Iraqi hospital and did not even like those stories. The Pentagon was quick to acknowledge that there had been no resistance from captors in her rescue, he writes, contending that the stories that emerged came from "the fog of war." He said, "If the Pentagon had wanted to manufacture a bogus firefight surely they could have done better."
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2003-06-03 KUCINICH: RESOLVE LYNCH STORY WITH UNEDITED FOOTAGE
Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) on June 2 asked the Pentagon to release unedited footage of the rescue of Private Jessica Lynch from an Iraqi hospital to resolve conflicting stories as to whether the dangers facing the rescuers were exaggerated to make better television. "As you can see," he wrote, "there is a wide gap between the facts as reported initially and the manner in which they are being reported now. As I understand the Defense Department's position, these recent accounts are 'outrageous, patently false and unsupported by the facts.' At the same time, Defense Department officials now seem to be qualifying their earlier statements."
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2003-05-27 PENTAGON DENIES "NEWS MANAGEMENT" IN LYNCH RESCUE
The Pentagon denied BBC claims that it "managed" the news in its account of the rescue of American POW Jessica Lynch. Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman said, "The Pentagon never released an account of what happened to Lynch because it didn't have an account."
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2003-04-18 DOCTOR COMPLAINS ABOUT OFFICIAL RESCUE STORY.
An Iraqi doctor who treated Private Jessica Lynch complained to a reporter for The Times of London that the videotape of her rescue shown to the media omitted scenes where four doctors and two civilian patients -- one still connected to an IV drip -- were handcuffed and interrogated. "They were doctors, with stethoscopes round their necks," Dr Harith al-Houssona said. "Even in war, a doctor should not be treated like that." Harith alleged that the rescue in al-Nasiriyah met with no resistance and terrified unarmed doctors and patients who were struggling to save Lynch's life. "They said that there was no medical care in Iraq, and that there was a very strong defence of this hospital. But there was no one here apart from doctors and patients, and there was nobody to fire at them." He added that he had earlier ordered an ambulance driver to take Lynch to an American post outside the city, but the driver turned back when he was fired upon by American forces.
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