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Pentagon calls BBC's Lynch allegations 'ridiculous'
Report said commando raid was unnecessarily theatric
Jamie McIntyre, CNN Washington Bureau
Tuesday, June 17, 2003 Posted: 10:58 PM EDT (0258 GMT)

Any charge that the U.S. military misrepresented the facts of Army Pfc. Jessica Lynch's rescue April 1 from an Iraqi hospital to make the mission appear more dramatic or heroic is "void of all facts and absolutely ridiculous" the Pentagon said Monday. ...

The BBC report quoted witnesses and hospital officials as stating the United States knew that there were no Iraqi forces at the hospital when it conducted the commando raid, and that the United States special operations forces had used Hollywood theatrics, including blank ammunition, to make a show of rescuing private Lynch.

http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/05/19/sprj.irq.bbc.lynch.dod/

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Today's News:

In the corridors of the Bush administration, senior officials frankly admit that they would prefer the Jessica Lynch story simply went away. "The Private Lynch story is becoming a monster," said one administration official.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/11/09/wirq109.xml