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Lynch meets rescuer
Charleston Daily Mail ^
| April 30, 2004
Posted on 04/30/2004 9:13:24 AM PDT by NCjim
Ex-POW wanted private meeting with Iraqi lawyer
Former POW Jessica Lynch has met the Iraqi lawyer who helped lead American soldiers to the Army supply clerk after her capture last spring.
The meeting with Mohammed Odeh al-Rehaief took place earlier this month in Washington, D.C., where Lynch was speaking at a seminar.
"It was a wonderful meeting and I can never control my emotion," said al-Rehaief, who is in Huntington for a Saturday book signing.
Al-Rehaief said Lynch was grateful for his part in her rescue.
"She tell me thank you,' and she say thank you very much for what you have done,' " he said. "We feel like it will be a very nice friendship between us in the future. We hope to meet again."
Al-Rehaief and his wife, Iman, brought their 6-year-old daughter, Abir, to meet Lynch, now an aspiring kindergarten teacher.
"Her eyes never got off my daughter," al-Rehaief said.
Lynch was captured March 23, 2003, after her 507th Maintenance Company convoy was ambushed in the southern Iraqi city of Nasiriyah. She was rescued nine days later after al-Rehaief alerted U.S. forces and mapped out the hospital where she was being held. A bomb blast as he fled left him blind in his left eye.
The videotaped rescue made Lynch one of the most recognizable personalities of the war.
The Palestine resident, who is still recovering from numerous injuries, had said she wanted to meet al-Rehaief privately, without publicity.
Stephen Goodwin, Lynch's attorney, did not immediately return a telephone message to his office Thursday night.
Al-Rehaief, who is employed by The Livingston Group LLC, a Washington, D.C., lobbying organization, is raising money to help support 14 family members.
TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; US: West Virginia
KEYWORDS: 507th; alrehaief; jessicalynch; reunion
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To: jaykay
I don't have any issue with either one getting some moneyto make up for their misery personally speaking.
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posted on
05/02/2004 12:39:24 AM PDT
by
cyborg
To: NCjim
Is it just me that wonders what someone would write (post #6) to a topic like this one that would be deleted? It would perhaps make sense in a controversial thread, but this one?
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posted on
05/02/2004 12:42:29 AM PDT
by
highlander_UW
("Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain and most fools do." Benjamin Franklin)
To: Lael
Does anyone know the final recommendation for cleaning fluid for Iraq???
From what I heard, CLP just doesn't cut it!MILITEC-1
http://www.militec-1.com/
To: jaykay
Jessica Lynch never wanted this meeting to be in the news. She didn't want it to be a media circus/publicity stunt. This private meeting happened in early April and is just reported now. If it were up to Lynch, I think it would never have been reported at all. No comment from her or her attorney in the article, just remarks from Mohammad. He just happened to have a book signing in Huntington WV. Well, good for him, he learned to be a good capitalist.Strange there is no word from her, but assuming he's been on the up and up the whole way it's good that he can support himself. :^)
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posted on
05/02/2004 2:02:01 AM PDT
by
#3Fan
(Kerry to POW-MIA activists: "You'll wish you'd never been born.". Link on my homepage.)
To: highlander_UW
Is it just me that wonders what someone would write (post #6) to a topic like this one that would be deleted? It would perhaps make sense in a controversial thread, but this one?I see your sign-up date is Nov '03. Had you been lurking last year between April and about July, you would've seen some very nasty stuff from the knuckle-draggers. :^)
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posted on
05/02/2004 2:05:05 AM PDT
by
#3Fan
(Kerry to POW-MIA activists: "You'll wish you'd never been born.". Link on my homepage.)
To: #3Fan; highlander_UW; Hacksaw
Is it just me that wonders what someone would write (post #6) to a topic like this one that would be deleted? It would perhaps make sense in a controversial thread, but this one?
I see your sign-up date is Nov '03. Had you been lurking last year between April and about July, you would've seen some very nasty stuff from the knuckle-draggers. :^)
Yes, Jessica Lynch has been a controversial figure here. Post #6 was in resonse to #4, which was a slight slam against Lynch, so maybe this was an overzealous Lynch defender.
#4: Lynch meets rescuer
To: NCjim
Yeah, it's about time. Woman should not be in combat positions. And clean that rifle.
4 posted on 04/30/2004 9:49:48 AM PDT by Hacksaw (Torquemeda. Confederate flag waver. And a really nice guy.)
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I wonder what #6 wrote? Maybe Hacksaw knows; did you go and get somebody's dander up?
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posted on
05/02/2004 2:23:57 AM PDT
by
jaykay
(Don't expect reasonable conduct from human beings; most are candidates for protective restraint.)
To: #3Fan
I'm not surprised that there was nothing from Lynch on this. She's always said that she wanted to meet Mohammad privately. The press threw a tantrum because they wanted an Oprah moment. Nice to see the press lose a round once in a while.
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posted on
05/02/2004 2:28:02 AM PDT
by
jaykay
(Don't expect reasonable conduct from human beings; most are candidates for protective restraint.)
To: jaykay
I wonder what #6 wrote? Maybe Hacksaw knows; did you go and get somebody's dander up?Don't you hate it when you see a post removed before you see what it said? :^) Since this is a Lynch thread I'm glad I didn't see it though. Someone may have been "expanding" on Hacksaw's point rather than going against Hacksaw.
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posted on
05/02/2004 2:30:15 AM PDT
by
#3Fan
(Kerry to POW-MIA activists: "You'll wish you'd never been born.". Link on my homepage.)
To: jaykay
I'm not surprised that there was nothing from Lynch on this. She's always said that she wanted to meet Mohammad privately. The press threw a tantrum because they wanted an Oprah moment. Nice to see the press lose a round once in a while.Yes it is! :^)
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posted on
05/02/2004 2:31:37 AM PDT
by
#3Fan
(Kerry to POW-MIA activists: "You'll wish you'd never been born.". Link on my homepage.)
To: jaykay
Ah...I think I can guess what direction that may have gone from there. Thanks.
Once I found FR I didn't lurk long before I signed up, so I must have missed the uglies that transpired previously. For a laugh, every once in a while I peek in at DU...just about every other post is a delete or obscenity.
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posted on
05/02/2004 2:33:28 AM PDT
by
highlander_UW
("Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain and most fools do." Benjamin Franklin)
To: #3Fan
Someone may have been "expanding" on Hacksaw's point rather than going against Hacksaw.
Unfortunately, that is a pretty strong possibility. Oh well, at least the moderators are on the good guy's (or gal's) side.
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posted on
05/02/2004 2:41:20 AM PDT
by
jaykay
(Don't expect reasonable conduct from human beings; most are candidates for protective restraint.)
To: jaykay
Unfortunately, that is a pretty strong possibility. Oh well, at least the moderators are on the good guy's (or gal's) side.If that was the case. :^)
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posted on
05/02/2004 2:43:04 AM PDT
by
#3Fan
(Kerry to POW-MIA activists: "You'll wish you'd never been born.". Link on my homepage.)
To: #3Fan
If, yes, I guess we'll have to leave it in mystery.
This is interesting and disturbing: It seems Mohammad's 6 year old daughter Abir had a lung stolen from her by Iraqi doctors for the child of a Baath Party honcho. Nice docs they have there, they really treat their patients well.
Abir was diagnosed with tuberculosis a few years ago. Iraqi doctors removed a lung. Her father later found the doctor lied because a senior Baath Party leader had a daughter who needed a lung. -
http://www.democratandchronicle.com/news/0429GM430CP_news.shtml
Better news: Thomas Hamill, the truck driver being held captive in Iraq has escaped! -
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1128162/posts
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posted on
05/02/2004 4:15:12 AM PDT
by
jaykay
(Don't expect reasonable conduct from human beings; most are candidates for protective restraint.)
To: jaykay
If, yes, I guess we'll have to leave it in mystery. This is interesting and disturbing: It seems Mohammad's 6 year old daughter Abir had a lung stolen from her by Iraqi doctors for the child of a Baath Party honcho. Nice docs they have there, they really treat their patients well. How terrible.
Good for Hamill though!
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posted on
05/02/2004 4:46:24 AM PDT
by
#3Fan
(Kerry to POW-MIA activists: "You'll wish you'd never been born.". Link on my homepage.)
To: HairOfTheDog; Moleman; SuziQ; #3Fan; cyborg; Joe 6-pack; longjack; highlander_UW
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posted on
05/07/2004 5:46:43 AM PDT
by
jaykay
To: jaykay
She looks good!
And he and his family are an interesting story. Thanks for the pic.
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posted on
05/07/2004 5:54:37 AM PDT
by
HairOfTheDog
(I am HairOfTheDog and I approved this message.)
To: jaykay
Good picture, jaykay...thanks!
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posted on
05/07/2004 6:11:16 AM PDT
by
#3Fan
(Kerry to POW-MIA activists: "You'll wish you'd never been born.". Link on my homepage.)
To: HairOfTheDog; #3Fan
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posted on
05/08/2004 12:26:46 AM PDT
by
jaykay
(Osama Bin Laden = A Lesbian Nomad (if you remix the letters))
To: jaykay
To: HairOfTheDog; Moleman; SuziQ; #3Fan; cyborg; Joe 6-pack; longjack; highlander_UW .......
What, no ping for me? :(
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posted on
05/08/2004 3:44:13 AM PDT
by
milemark
(Proud to be an infidel.)
To: jaykay
Thanks she looks like she is doing real well!
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posted on
05/08/2004 9:31:11 AM PDT
by
HairOfTheDog
(I am HairOfTheDog and I approved this message.)
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