I said this in an earlier post when I heard the first details of the Lynch rescue:
I fear the following things are true:1) Americans prisoners shown on Al Jazeera, as well as the Apache pilots captured later, were all tortured and then executed.
2) There are snuff videos of their torture/execution that will soon go into circulation on the Arab street.
3) Lynch was reatedly gang raped and only survived because a senior Al Qaeda/Fedayeen wanted to keep her as a "trophy."
We have since learned that nine of the 11 bodies found with Pfc. Lynch were Americans. The Army is in the process of identification and notification of next of kin.
We also learned that the stabbing and gunshot wounds in the initial Washington Post report were as accurate as some of my sources on military dependent child abuse. (The Post still hasn't seen fit to run a correction.)
I think the Al Qaeda recent announcement of the capture of American prisoners in Iraq, and their wanting to trade them for Al Qaedaites on Guantanimo, means they bought Lynch's fellow 507th's prisoners from their Iraqi Fedayeen captors and perhaps those Apache pilots as well.
CTD
The Bush Administration will not trade captives to Al Qaeda, so I think predictions one and two will come to pass.
As for Lynch, it is clear that she was tortured. Lynch was denied food for all eight days of her captivity, but not water nor medical attention. She had two broken legs, a broken arm, a shattered spinal disk, a broken ankle, a crushed/damaged foot and a head laceration. (She had no feeling in her feet, but Fox News reports feeling is returning after an operation to fuze the disk.)
This Knight Ridder Newspapers story about how "Mohammed he Lawyer" helped get Lynch out makes clear she was in the hands of the Fedayeen and not the Iraqi Army:
But Mohammed's tale is one of a man who didn't like what he saw when he walked into the Saddam Hospital last Friday to visit his wife and was told by a doctor friend that an American woman POW was in the emergency ward.The friend walked him to the ground-floor ward, taken over by the feared Saddam Fedayeen at the start of the war, and past a window where he saw Lynch, an Army private first class captured after her convoy became lost near Nasiriyah in the opening days of the war.
Her head was bandaged, her right arm was in a sling over a white blanket and she had what Mohammed thought was a gunshot wound to a leg. But her real problem then was the black-uniformed Fedayeen commander who everyone addressed as "colonel."
The man slapped her, Mohammed said. "One, two," he added, making single slapping and back slap motions with his right hand. She was very brave, he recalled.
and
There were 41 Fedayeen based at the hospital, with four guarding Lynch's room in civilian clothes but armed with AK-47 assault rifles and carrying radios.
So, Lynch is alive while her conmpanions are either dead, or sold to Al Qaeda. My gut says Pfc. Lynch was this colonel's "special project." I think we will find out in good time that I was right on number three as well. After the fall of Baghdad, if things go well there. During Baghdad's fall, if they don't.
It's been confirmed that seven of the eight American bodies in the 11-12 found are from the 507th Maintenance Company.
My count may be wrong, but I think that means some of the five we saw on video have been killed.
We will find out soon enough when they notify the next of kin.
This is the latest on PfC. Lynch's rescue:
http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGA9WIEQ5ED.html
None of the five video taped American prisoners were among the dead bodies found with Pfc. Lynch.
hard to think about gang rapes. The Bath party's porno has desensitized America and much of the world. About Lynch, I would say kill lots more Iraqi's, but it is not about Lynch. She is really just one of many...so I say MASS DESTRUCTION