jaybird
04-03-2003, 10:54 PM
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According to a military reporter with the First Marine Expeditionary Force, Marines were led to Lynch by an Iraqi man whose wife was a nurse at the hospital.
The man, a lawyer from Nasiriyah whom the reporter identified only as Mohammad, said he peered through the window of Lynch's room and saw Iraqi [soldiers] slapping her repeatedly.
"I knew then I must help her be saved," the man was quoted as saying. "I decided I must go to tell the Americans." "I told her not to worry."
The military reporter said that after Mohammad walked 6 miles and told Marines about Lynch's whereabouts, he returned to the hospital to gather intelligence, including the number of Iraqi troops guarding the building, the layout of the building and the room in which Lynch was kept. He then walked the 6 miles back to where the Marines were, giving them a hand-drawn map of the facilities.
Mohammad and his family have been granted refugee status and have been taken to a secure location, the reporter said.
**This was reported by a Boston newspaper embedded reporter**
According to a military reporter with the First Marine Expeditionary Force, Marines were led to Lynch by an Iraqi man whose wife was a nurse at the hospital.
The man, a lawyer from Nasiriyah whom the reporter identified only as Mohammad, said he peered through the window of Lynch's room and saw Iraqi [soldiers] slapping her repeatedly.
"I knew then I must help her be saved," the man was quoted as saying. "I decided I must go to tell the Americans." "I told her not to worry."
The military reporter said that after Mohammad walked 6 miles and told Marines about Lynch's whereabouts, he returned to the hospital to gather intelligence, including the number of Iraqi troops guarding the building, the layout of the building and the room in which Lynch was kept. He then walked the 6 miles back to where the Marines were, giving them a hand-drawn map of the facilities.
Mohammad and his family have been granted refugee status and have been taken to a secure location, the reporter said.
**This was reported by a Boston newspaper embedded reporter**