Lynch's lips are sealed
2003-05-29 19:43
West Virginia - The parents of Jessica Lynch said on Thursday they are not permitted to discuss details of their daughter's capture and rescue in Iraq.
Greg and Deadra Lynch also said they couldn't comment on media reports that disputed the US military's account of her April 1 rescue from an Iraqi hospital.
"It is still an ongoing investigation," Greg Lynch said during a news conference at the family's rural West Virginia home.
The Army supply clerk is being treated at a Washington, DC, hospital for injuries suffered when her convoy was ambushed.
Iraqi hospital staffers who spoke with the AP said this month that the US commandos who came to get Lynch refused a key and instead broke down doors and went in with guns drawn, and that they carried away the prisoner in the dead of night with helicopter and armored vehicle backup - even though there was no Iraqi military presence and the hospital staff didn't resist.
New attention has been drawn to the rescue since a BBC report earlier this month charged that the Pentagon exaggerated the danger of the raid.
- SAPA