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.
You shouldn't be, especially of anything that comes from his mouth. #3psycho is mentally unstable as any number of freepers who have encountered him will testify. He also has a bad habit of projecting himself onto others (and into the conversations of others), as he has repeatedly done what he alleges against me and shown up to post responses to things I have stated in threads that have been dorment for weeks and even months.
As I noted, I pinged another poster to this thread following a lengthy discussion on another thread (it's one of those super-long threads that's going on for 4 or 5 months right now) as to why three different active participants in it, psycho boy included, had all disappeared from both that thread and FR entirely during the same week in May. It was later determined that one of the three had been suspended from FR and another remains unaccounted for. As you can see from this thread, psycho boy's last post had been located and pinged without even mentioning him or doing anything whatsoever to draw him back to this thread. So sure enough, a few days later he pops back up on FR and starts posting here (while also, I might add, following me and a few other FR friends to another thread that he abandoned long ago but showed up on shortly after returning to this one - see http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1123201/posts?page=3297#3297 if you want to check for yourself). You are right that it's wierd and all, but then again so is he.
Most people ignore the idiots. I know I should too but lies are an abomination to me. :^)
As I noted, I pinged another poster to this thread following a lengthy discussion on another thread (it's one of those super-long threads that's going on for 4 or 5 months right now) as to why three different active participants in it, psycho boy included, had all disappeared from both that thread and FR entirely during the same week in May.
ROFL!!!! This site has tens of thousands of members and your suspicious because three disappeared the same week??? I'd imagine three disappear together every week. You guys are absolutely crazy. This is so funny. So you think Walt and I are the same poster...who's the third?
It was later determined that one of the three had been suspended from FR and another remains unaccounted for. As you can see from this thread, psycho boy's last post had been located and pinged without even mentioning him or doing anything whatsoever to draw him back to this thread.
That's where you're wrong. I was answering Jaykay's post to me that was posted while I was gone.
So sure enough, a few days later he pops back up on FR and starts posting here (while also, I might add, following me and a few other FR friends to another thread that he abandoned long ago but showed up on shortly after returning to this one - see http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1123201/posts?page=3297#3297 if you want to check for yourself). You are right that it's wierd and all, but then again so is he.
Every old thread I hit when I returned was in answer to a post posted to me while I was gone. Like I said, you are bonkers and so obsessed with me that you believe the wildest, stupidest conspiracies. So tell me, who are the other posters that you think I'm posting as? Who got suspended? For everyone's information, I moved, LOL, so no great conspiracy, just a change of fortunes (for the better) and a change of homes, change of vehicles, and when I moved here my computer got fried so I've had a very eventful three months and just haven't had time for you neoconfederate criers-over-spilt-milk. Glad to see you're so concerned that you spent all this time wondering about my condition though. ROFL
Who are the three? I really want to know who my split personalities are. Is Walt one? [waiting with baited breath]
Did I mention that he reacted similarly on another thread after I jokingly compared his comic mental state to that of Ignatius Reilly in John Kennedy Toole's "A Confederacy of Dunces"? He responded by threatening me with a slander lawsuit, implying that this act of literary mockery was going to cost him business! The guy is a loon, which is why I don't post to him anymore.
Like your tagline! lol
Yeah I did miss that. Good to see soldiers progress in their recoveries. She deserves to meet the president after what she went through. All the POWs do.
I do not think that many people ever understood the condition she has been enduring, both physically, spirtually, and mentally.
She has been very stubborn in allowing herself to be used, sure, she is giving talks, quietly and under her own sense of correctness. I pray for her healing, and wish her the best.
Is that the humvee that Jessica was riding in? The trees in the background, do they have trees like that in Iraq? I imagine humvees crash into Army trucks all the time, that could be any humvee vs truck incident. Well, maybe not all the time, but I'm sure it happens.
It's terrible how the Baathists mistreated pfc Piestewa considering she was in the front seat in that wreck (or was Piestewa driving another vehicle?).
I believe the photo is genuine. There are in fact trees like that in Iraq. I've seen more like them today in news reports from the fighting around Najaf. Besides, why falsify the photo? We know that Lynch's humvee crashed into the back of a U.S. military truck, that is not disputed.
Yes, Piestewa was driving that humvee with 1st Sgt. Dowdy in the front passenger seat and two 3rd I.D. soldiers, Buggs and Anguiamo in the rear passenger seats and Lynch riding on the transmission hump between Buggs and Anguiamo.
Lynch would seem to me to be in the worst position to survive a crash, but instead she was the only survivor.
Yeah, it's too bad Lori Piestewa didn't receive the proper medical attention, she may have survived if she did.
Yes, if U.S. forces had gottem to the scene first, she would have at least had a chance.
As it is, it is a miracle that at least J.L. survived the Iraqi's hospitality.
Big time. Hooray for her rescuers!
Is the Iraqi a FReeper yet? If not, let's get him on here. And nobody better harass him as a newbie!
Do we even know if he is a "right wing nut?"
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