Saturday, 8. November 2003
Topic: W A R - on November 8, 2003 at 5:11:19 PM CET
Jessica Lynch: Military Used Me
Former prisoner of war Jessica Lynch accused the military of using her capture and dramatic nighttime rescue to sway public support for the war in Iraq.
Dramatic video of U.S. commandos whisking the former Army supply clerk from a Nasiriyah hospital to a waiting chopper April 1 helped cement Lynch's image as a hero. But the 20-year-old private told ABC's Diane Sawyer there was no reason for her rescue to be filmed.
"They used me as a way to symbolize all this stuff," Lynch told Sawyer in a "Primetime" interview to air Tuesday. "It's wrong."
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