CNN is practically throwing a virtual tickertape parade for Iraqi doctors for attending to POW/hostage Jessica Lynch's injuries and keeping her fed, cared for, and informed.

You know, like the Geneva Convention demands. Odd how CNN isn't falling over itself to praise the Coalition for its beyond-the-call-of-duty treatment of Iraqi POWs.

Let's see what was done:

Doctors and nurses at Nasiriya's main hospital say they defied senior Iraqi military leaders and Baath Party officials to care for a wounded American soldier who was held prisoner there for more than a week.

Ahmed Muhsin, a resident doctor at the hospital, said he and other medical workers smuggled food and news of advancing coalition forces to Army Pfc. Jessica Lynch, who was under constant guard while being treated for two broken legs, a broken arm and a fractured back.

There was no immediate way to independently confirm the doctors' claims.

Saad Abd Alrazaq, a hospital administrator, said Lynch was in shock when she arrived at the hospital. He said that she was given plasma and two transfusions, and that he gave her clothes from his wife's closet because she was covered by little more than a sheet.

"She had no family in Iraq, and we felt we were her family," Alrazaq said. "We would visit her often, sometimes with my children."

Lynch and a number of other soldiers from the 507th Ordnance Maintenance Company, along with several from other units, were listed as missing in action after Iraqi forces ambushed their convoy March 23 near Nasiriya. The 19-year-old native of Palestine, West Virginia, a supply clerk with the 507th, was rescued April 1 in a commando raid on the hospital.

Lynch's rescuers also discovered the bodies of nine other missing soldiers.

Muhsin said Lynch's guards beat her and tried to stop doctors from checking on her more than twice a day, but that he and others on the staff would give her biscuits, oranges, milk and medicine from their own limited supplies.

"She suffered from [the soldiers]," he said. "Largely she suffered from them."

The hospital staff said they thought it was their duty as Muslims to give Lynch the best possible treatment. Islam, they said, teaches that prisoners of war should be treated well.

If I recall correctly, the Iraqi Information Minister (aka Baghdad Bob) shouted that all American POw's would be treated according to the Geneva Convention. According to the Iraqi delegate to the Arab League Summit that coincided with the conflict, the claim was made that the Iraqis would treat all prisoners by what they said a higher standards, which they claimed was the Islamic way of treating prisoners of war. (Never mind the fact that portions of the Koran hold infidel captives in conflict as holding zero status and their Islamic captors are free to kill, maim, rape, and mutilate them)

If it weren't for the doctors managing to circumvent the Ba'athist guards and attend to Jessica, she would have been afforded neither.

Compare that with how the Iraqi captives have been treated. First real meals the've gotten since Allah knows when. No fear of being shot by their officers or loyalty-checking fedayeen.

Just wait to see who Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch and the UN complain about.