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May 16, 2003:  PoliSat.Com's Political Satire/Commentary  Daily Update #01··™©·2003··
  Before reading PoliSat.Com's May 16, 2003, commentary, read the following excerpt from a BBC "news" report reproduced below (without the BBC's permission) in case the BBC later disables the link (for reasons of embarrassment or for other "journalistic" reasons to avoid further scrutiny and criticism of this example of allegations described in a news report as fact comporting with the BBC's precocieved notions about Operation Iraqi Freedom):


Thursday, 15 May, 2003, 08:50 GMT 09:50 UK
Saving Private Lynch story 'flawed'·

Private Lynch has lost her memory of her rescue
By John Kampfner

Private Jessica Lynch became an icon of the war, and the story of her capture by the Iraqis and her rescue by US special forces became one of the great patriotic moments of the conflict.

But her story is one of the most stunning pieces of news management ever conceived. 

Private Lynch, a 19-year-old army clerk from Palestine, West Virginia, was captured when her company took a wrong turning just outside Nasiriya and was ambushed.

Nine of her comrades were killed and Private Lynch was taken to the local hospital, which at the time was swarming with Fedayeen. Eight days later US special forces stormed the hospital, capturing the "dramatic" events on a night vision camera.

They were said to have come under fire from inside and outside the building, but they made it to Lynch and whisked her away by helicopter.

Dr a-Houssona found no bullet wounds
Reports claimed that she had stab and bullet wounds and that she had been slapped about on her hospital bed and interrogated.

But Iraqi doctors in Nasiriya say they provided the best treatment they could for the soldier in the midst of war. She was assigned the only specialist bed in the hospital and one of only two nurses on the floor.

"I examined her, I saw she had a broken arm, a broken thigh and a dislocated ankle," said Dr Harith a-Houssona, who looked after her.

"There was no [sign of] shooting, no bullet inside her body, no stab wound - only road traffic accident. They want to distort the picture. I don't know why they think there is some benefit in saying she has a bullet injury."

Witnesses told us that the special forces knew that the Iraqi military had fled a day before they swooped on the hospital.

Dr Uday was surprised by the manner of the rescue.  "We were surprised. Why do this? There was no military, there were no soldiers in the hospital," said Dr Anmar Uday, who worked at the hospital.

"It was like a Hollywood film. They cried 'go, go, go', with guns and blanks without bullets, blanks and the sound of explosions. They made a show for the American attack on the hospital - action movies like Sylvester Stallone or Jackie Chan."

There was one more twist. Two days before the snatch squad arrived, Harith had arranged to deliver Jessica to the Americans in an ambulance.

But as the ambulance, with Private Lynch inside, approached a checkpoint American troops opened fire, forcing it to flee back to the hospital. The Americans had almost killed their prize catch.

When footage of the rescue was released, General Vincent Brooks, US spokesman in Doha, said: "Some brave souls put their lives on the line to make this happen, loyal to a creed that they know that they'll never leave a fallen comrade."

The American strategy was to ensure the right television footage by using embedded reporters and images from their own cameras, editing the film themselves.

The Pentagon had been influenced by Hollywood producers of reality TV and action movies, notably the man behind Black Hawk Down, Jerry Bruckheimer.

Bruckheimer advised the Pentagon on the primetime television series "Profiles from the Front Line", that followed US forces in Afghanistan in 2001. That approached was taken on and developed on the field of battle in Iraq.

As for Private Lynch, her status as cult hero is stronger than ever. Internet auction sites list Jessica Lynch items, from an oil painting with an opening bid of $200 to a $5 "America Loves Jessica Lynch" fridge magnet.

But doctors now say she has no recollection of the whole episode and probably never will.

End of Excerpt.  Link to this "news" report:  http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/correspondent/3028585.stm.

Below is PoliSat.Com's May 16, 2003 Commentary about the BBC "report":
(A PoliSat.Com animation for this update is at the end of the text.)

The new BBC peroration renews Baghdad Bob Cultivation..

Reports that described the maraud 
that saved Private Lynch inspired awe,
but yet BBC
prefers to believe
Iraqis who claim they were "flawed."

But who are the sources believed
enough to convince BBC
that Lynch didn't need
a raid to be freed
'cause doctors attended her needs?

The sources allege they attended
her medical needs and attempted
by ambulance truck
through desert and muck
to take her to us to be mended.

Alleging they failed 'cause their truck
by bullets from our side was struck
and thus being spurned,
they claim they returned
to safety through desert and muck.

They claim they continued good care
for Lynch at the hospital where
civilians alone
remained in the zone
surrounding the hospital there.

That soldiers were not in the zone
they claim was by rescuers known
in breaking their doors
to enter the floors
comprising the medical zones.

Again you ask, "Who was believed
enough to convince BBC
that Lynch didn't need
the raid to be freed
'cause doctors attended her needs?

Their sources, of course, are Iraqis
who may have a motive for flaking
instead of admitting
to being complicit
in torture applied by the Baathists.

And who are the ones to contest
the versions those doctors profess?
For starters, a lawyer
asserted he saw her
by captors be slapped and oppressed.

And further our own special forces
have said they were shot-at by forces
approaching the place
where Lynch was in straits
and also en route to American forces.

And further, quite often we'd found,
their forces used hospital grounds
as places to hold
command and control
and weapons concealed on the grounds.

Remember how often we'd hear
the way many doctors endeared
themselves to Saddam
was going along
with orders for cutting-off ears?

The way BBC did its job
in judging which version is fog
reveals BBC
reporters to be
still prone to believe Baghdad Bob.

To view the animation, click the image below:

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Until reading this BBC "news" report, I would have thought that only the French (well, also the Guardian, the Independent and the Mirror) would be capable of passing off such propaganda (probably from former Baathists) as a "news" report.  It's enough to make one wonder whether the reporter's name ("John Kampfner") is merely the latest pseudonym for Peter Arnett.  Only the most gullible reporter could have believed the forces rescuing Lynch were "shooting blanks."  One wonders how a reporter could have believed these doctors' claims of knowledge that before the raid, the Americans "knew" all the Iraqi irregular forces had "left two days earlier."  Is this reporter to naive to understand the obvious motive these doctors have to deny complicity in any mistreatment of Lynch?  Is the reporter unaware of pervasive stories of how many doctors in Iraq performed mutilations (such as removing ears of Hussein's political opponents) at the behest of Saddam's Baathists?  Under what rock has this reporter been living?  This reporter would not only buy the Brooklyn Bridge, he'd buy it repeatedly.  --Jim Wrenn, Editor@PoliSat.Com.·
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