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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: milemark
What, no ping for me? :(
Geez, I just pinged everyone on the thread who I thought might be interested, I didn't go back and research all the old threads. But you found it anyway so all is well. :)
41
posted on
05/08/2004 10:54:51 AM PDT
by
jaykay
(Osama Bin Laden = A Lesbian Nomad (if you remix the letters))
To: jaykay
I was kidding, I see how you posted it. Just having a little joke at your expense.
42
posted on
05/15/2004 10:24:46 AM PDT
by
milemark
(Proud to be an infidel.)
To: jaykay
From that Wash. Post article:
Jessica Lynch faced quite the quandary last weekend -- not that it compares with being a POW, by any means -- when she was forced to choose between her boyfriend, Ruben Contreras, and President Bush.
After an impromptu meet-and-greet with Dubya and Mrs. Bush backstage after the White House Correspondents' Dinner, Lynch was invited by press secretary Scott McClellan to see the prez again at the White House on Sunday morning. Alas, the adorable 21-year-old had other plans: She was booked on a predawn flight to make it home in time to celebrate Contreras's 25th birthday. (Awww.)
People magazine's Sandra Sobieraj tells us that Lynch was still struggling with what to do while at the Bloomberg News after-party -- (cue the Clash's "Should I Stay or Should I Go") -- when Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz swooped in and saved the day. Dropping to one knee (Lynch was sitting on a couch), Wolfie assured her: "The president wouldn't want you to miss your boyfriend's birthday. I speak to him all the time and, if no one else gets the message to him, I'll make sure he knows that's why you didn't go see him."
That Wolfowitz, always the diplomat.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7066-2004May6.html
Compiled by Anne Schroeder from staff and wire reports
© 2004 The Washington Post Company
Article dated Fri. May 7, 2004
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Just in case...
43
posted on
05/18/2004 12:20:32 AM PDT
by
jaykay
To: nolu chan
Notice the subject of his last post.
44
posted on
07/26/2004 12:23:35 PM PDT
by
GOPcapitalist
("Can Lincoln expect to subjugate a people thus resolved? No!" - Sam Houston, 3/1863)
To: jaykay
Always good to see our soldiers recovering from their sacrifices. Thanks.
45
posted on
08/02/2004 7:42:42 PM PDT
by
#3Fan
(q)
To: GOPcapitalist
Man you sure are obsessed with me. LOL What do you do, check and see every thread I post to every morning? Weirdo.
46
posted on
08/02/2004 7:45:50 PM PDT
by
#3Fan
(q)
To: #3Fan
(Tagline repair...new computer, takes getting used to)
47
posted on
08/02/2004 7:48:24 PM PDT
by
#3Fan
( (Kerry to POW-MIA activists: "You'll wish you'd never been born.". Link on my homepage.))
To: #3Fan
48
posted on
08/02/2004 7:49:19 PM PDT
by
cyborg
(http://mentalmumblings.blogspot.com/)
To: #3Fan
49
posted on
08/02/2004 7:49:56 PM PDT
by
#3Fan
(Kerry to POW-MIA activists: "You'll wish you'd never been born.". Link on my homepage.)
To: cyborg
Hi cyborg! Veddy, veddy busy. I moved, computer got fried (hack attack from a neoconfederate I'm sure...lol...just kidding), life's been rocking and rolling lately, bit of a lull now though. Glad I was busy, the evil Democrats would've drove me nuts the last three months. The campaign's getting going good now though and it's time to start cheerleading...or cheering, anyway. :^)
50
posted on
08/02/2004 7:56:50 PM PDT
by
#3Fan
(Kerry to POW-MIA activists: "You'll wish you'd never been born.". Link on my homepage.)
To: #3Fan
Ah the democrat convention, you didn't miss much.
51
posted on
08/02/2004 8:06:36 PM PDT
by
cyborg
(http://mentalmumblings.blogspot.com/)
To: cyborg
I actually watched some of it. I certainly didn't watch Thursday though. Kerry's voice is like Frankenstein's.
52
posted on
08/02/2004 8:50:28 PM PDT
by
#3Fan
(Kerry to POW-MIA activists: "You'll wish you'd never been born.". Link on my homepage.)
To: nolu chan
Looks like the psycho's back!
53
posted on
08/02/2004 8:53:49 PM PDT
by
GOPcapitalist
("Can Lincoln expect to subjugate a people thus resolved? No!" - Sam Houston, 3/1863)
To: nolu chan
Now if only Wlat shows up followed by partisan hacking his book everywhere your theory will be confirmed
54
posted on
08/02/2004 8:56:54 PM PDT
by
GOPcapitalist
("Can Lincoln expect to subjugate a people thus resolved? No!" - Sam Houston, 3/1863)
To: GOPcapitalist
You guys and your nutty tinfoil theories. What is it this time?
55
posted on
08/02/2004 8:59:22 PM PDT
by
#3Fan
(Kerry to POW-MIA activists: "You'll wish you'd never been born.". Link on my homepage.)
To: #3Fan; GOPcapitalist
What happened here?
Post #43 on 05/18/2004, then nothing going on in this thread for over 2 months, then post #44 on 07/26/2004 by GOPcapitalist apparently having nothing to do with the subject of the thread...
I think I've just surfed into the
56
posted on
08/04/2004 1:29:55 AM PDT
by
jaykay
To: jaykay
GOPCapitalist follows me from thread to thread (breaking FR guidelines, by the way, of not taking a flame war to other threads) to hound me over his pet issue, as evidenced here.
57
posted on
08/04/2004 1:32:05 AM PDT
by
#3Fan
(Kerry to POW-MIA activists: "You'll wish you'd never been born.". Link on my homepage.)
To: #3Fan
Wow, that's... something.
What, I'm not sure.
58
posted on
08/04/2004 1:45:00 AM PDT
by
jaykay
To: Joe 6-pack
Joe,
FWIW His wife worked in the hospital.
SIC (Forward)
59
posted on
08/04/2004 1:45:10 AM PDT
by
SICSEMPERTYRANNUS
("Our responses to terrorist acts should make the world gasp." - When Devils Walk the Earth)
To: jaykay
It was posted as a followup to a discussion elsewhere regarding why a couple of active posters on another ongoing thread had all disappeared from FR almost simultaneously. This thread was one of the "last seen" places we were discussing, so I pinged another to it.
60
posted on
08/04/2004 1:52:46 AM PDT
by
GOPcapitalist
("Can Lincoln expect to subjugate a people thus resolved? No!" - Sam Houston, 3/1863)
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