Now THAT is courage! God bless them for helping our POW!

That guy needs more than a blessing.

Figure out who it was and give the guy a million and a Green Card if he wants one.

The risks were huge, the rewards should be huge.

Link doesn't work?

Lest anybody get into the mindset that 'the only good Iraqi is a dead Iraqi'....good people are good people no matter who they are, or where you find them. Thank god for this guy.

Lest anybody get into the mindset that 'the only good Iraqi is a dead Iraqi'....good people are good people no matter who they are, or where you find them. Thank god for this guy.

green card? hell, the family deserves immediate citizenship! Surely some senator can make that happen.

As great as this rescue is (and is a truly amazing example of our armed forces' bravery and proficiency), everyone should probably follow den Beste's rule: take a deep breath and let the 24 hour news cycle work through the actual facts of what happened. Recall: at first, she was safe and sound. Then it was reported that she had been shot once, maybe more. Then we learned about her broken limbs. Then a stab wound (or wounds), and then the came the report that she exhausted her ammo fighting back against her captors. Now we hear that she was aided on the inside by a sympathetic Iraqi. I want to believe all of it, but already MSNBC is reporting that her parents say she wasn't shot or stabbed ... or at least, the doctors have mentioned that as one of her injuries. What's the truth? At this point, it may not matter, because it is such a great event no matter what the details are, but other than the fact that she was lost and is now found, all the rest should probably not be taken as irrefutable fact until she's had a chance to tell the whole story.

This, of course, is a particularly vivid example of the need for a triangulation of news reports, which this site has so effectively provided.

Oh Dave - quit being so.. so... LOGICAL, dammit. I wanted to cry and hug and cheer, and then I read your comments and of course, you're right... damn you and your brain.

i have very little doubt him and his family will have US citizenship if they want it. There's a whole town full of people who I'm sure will help them get set up (to say the least)

dave- this isn't a rumor site, it's .mil and written by a Marine.

Casey: believe me, I love this story. Just to read anything in the LA Times that has a positive tone is a much improved way to begin my day. I do find it interesting, though, how almost every news event coming from the front, in the hyperventilated, instant-news era of the internet, goes through a period of permutation and amendment until it eventually settles in to its final form. Just an observation. Certainly large portions of this story will prove to be, in fact, true. The more, the better.

I don't doubt that there was some serious undercover-stealth-dangerous work going on, and by civilians, obviously. I imagine this is going to make a great Lifetime movie at any rate!

Having people like him in Iraq after 30 years of extremely brutal dictatorship gives me some hope for Iraq's future.
In the meantime, he and his family must definitely be given green cards - it would be a shame if they're killed by Saddams's thugs.
As a side note, those events could be a great movie story (if Hollywoood will use scenario written by someone with a brain, not brain-dead one as often happens).

Well, if it's true I certainly hope they've already evacuated Mohammed, his wife and child from Iraq and put them in a Witness Protection Program. Otherwise, those are 3 dead Iraqis, for sure.

This isnt made up. Centcom mentioned a female Iraqi nurse tipped them off. Obviously's mohammad's wife.

The conflicting reports are driving me nuts. First, she has one gunshot wound. Then it was several. Then I heard a reporter supposedly quote her father as saying that she hadn't been shot at all. Then I heard she was stabbed. Then that she'd been stabbed multiple times AND shot.

The coolest thing I've heard so far is that her story, as we're getting (by that I mean the story of the way she defended herself and her comrades) isn't something she's been spreading, but instead has been pieced together from study of the battlefield. In other words, the people who are saying, "There were no witnesses. She could just be making it up to make herself look good." can get screwed.

PFC Lynch has done more to defend this country as a soldier than George W Bush has ever done in the Texas National guard and who went AWOL in 1972. Bush does not appear worthy to lock PFC Lynch's boots.

Give it a fucking rest, shitspinner.

He's doing better than Al Gore ever could have. Think Gore would have done anything but whine after 9/11, maybe toss a couple of Tomahawks? Instead, we've got the Taliban fairly well cleaned out and Saddamn most likely worm food.

That's a success in anyone's book.

J.

You got a link for that, Stolen? Don't bother with the crap Raimondo puts out. Those are allegations, not even circumstantial evidence.

Oh, time to get over the 2000 election, too. Do the words electoral college mean anything to you? Do the numbers 7-2 mean anything to you?

"PFC Lynch has done more to defend this country as a soldier than George W Bush has ever done in the Texas National guard and who went AWOL in 1972. Bush does not appear worthy to lock PFC Lynch's boots."

that is true but we don't need to color everything with political agendas.

stolenelectioncoin.com,

Oh and I suppose Clinton the draft dodger is worthy enough?

Whine someplace else weenie.

The story I heard was that an anonymous man (after looking around nervously) gave a soldier a handwritten note, the handwritting in a woman's hand....

I think there are numerous heros in this story.

But offering them green cards is the wrong approach, we should offer them aid, offer them positions of leadership, offer them something that will help them make Iraq over into something that is closer to thier natures than Saddam's. Iraq can be a grand democracy, the birthplace of civilization can once again cradle the best of human aspirations, and it is this that America should strive for, not skimming its cream from the top to the direct benefit of our nation.

P.S. Is it just me, or is the "stolen election" rhetoric getting as old and intellectually shallow as the "no blood for oil" argument?

Somehow this story has at least the ring of truth.

If it is true - this is a man, and a family, that the Arab street should be proud of.

The story helps sustain faith in the true character of the Iraqi people. May God Bless them as they try to find peace.

The story strikes me as being true, too. I would welcome Mohammed and his family to my house any time.

The only thing I want to know is whether or not she is carrying an Iraqi baby. Doesn't Germany have EPT?

Well I heard that she was actually kidnapped by that guy who abducted Elizabet Smart.

Elizabeth Smart, I mean.