- Iraqi doctors who treated Jessica Lynch dispute claims
made in her biography, penned by former NEW YORK TIMES reporter Rick Bragg,
that she was raped.
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- Dr. Mahdi Khafazji, who performed surgery on Lynch's
fractured femur said he found no signs of sexual assalult.
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- Khafazji said he examined her extensively and would have
noticed signs of rape, and said the examination turned up no semen.
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- "She was injured at about 7 in the morning,"
Khafazji said. "What kind of animal would do it to a person suffering
from multiple injuries?"
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- Dr. Jamal al-Saeidi, head of the orthopedic department
at the now closed Military Hospital, recounts:
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- "When she was brought there she was fighting for
her life. She was in shock because of the severity of her injury... Her
clothes were not torn, buttons had not come off, her pants were zipped
up."
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- Al-Saeidi also said he found no evidence of rape during
an examination -- though he said he was not looking for evidence of a sexual
assault.
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- "We had a few minutes, golden minutes to save her,"
he said.
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- "Why are they saying such things?" the hospital's
deputy director Dr. Khodheir al-Hazbar said. "We were good to her."
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- http://www.drudgereport.com/flash2.htm
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