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BBC Expose of Spin Put on Jessica Lynch Rescue in Iraq

The [BBC] special uncovers major discrepancies in the Pentagon's Rambo-like interpretation of the rescue in Iraq and concludes the incident is one of the most stunning pieces of news management ever conceived.

John Kampfner, a reporter for the program BBC Correspondent, investigated the famous story of how U.S. troops conducted a "daring rescue" behind enemy lines to extract the seriously wounded 19-year-old private. He confirmed reports that by the time the raid was conducted on the hospital where Lynch was taken, Iraqi troops had already departed and that she was being well taken care of by doctors and staff.

In addition, her stab and bullet wounds were actually road accident injuries and the special forces knew that at the time.

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Very good - but at the time the BBC wasn't so critical or questioning. They swallowed the line, for instance, on the necessity of using bunker-busting bombs on a normal residential area of Baghdad becase of (faulty) intelligence of a sighting of Saddam - the under-reported result was the death of dozens of civilians. Only UK media I trusted during the whole saga was The Independent newspaper.