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“It was war, but we cared about her and we did everything we could for her,” he said. Hundreds of civilian casualties poured into the hospital, but a senior medical team assigned to Lynch made sure she had the best care the hospital could provide, and a female nurse was constantly at her bedside, said Dr Khudair al-Hazbar, then deputy director of the Saddam hospital. He said Lynch’s injuries were so severe she would have died had she been sexually assaulted after she was wounded.ĭuring the days Lynch was in hospital, Nassiriya was battered by fighting. What sort of an animal would even think of that?” She was fighting for her life, her body was broken. “If she had been raped there is no way she could have survived it. She had no sign of raping or sodomising.”

“I cleaned her body including her genitalia. “I examined her very carefully,” he said at his private clinic in the centre of Nassiriya. He said he cleaned her body before surgery and found no signs of a sexual assault.

There, Dr Mahdi Khafazji operated on her fractured right femur when her condition had stabilised. Shortly afterwards Lynch was transferred to Saddam Hospital in Nassiriya, now renamed Nassiriya General. There is no way (she could have been raped).” Her clothes were not torn, her boots had not been removed.

Her injuries were consistent with severe trauma, a car crash, nothing else. Shwail said he saw no signs of rape but neither was he looking for them. Now people are saying she was raped… it pains us.” “It was our duty to look after her and we did. “She was a woman, young and alone in a strange country,” he said. A copy of People magazine with the blonde soldier’s smiling face on the cover lay on the couch beside him. Lynch, now 20, was the same age as his eldest daughter Noor, said Shwail. The anaesthetist cut away an area around her groin to insert a catheter to drain urine.

He said her flak jacket was removed and her clothes were cut away to expose the injured sites. “We only had a few minutes to save her life, we found a vein in her neck to give her fluids and blood,” Shwail told Reuters at his home in Nassiriya.Ī team of five doctors treated Lynch, who was given an anaesthetic to allow a 15-cm (six-inch) cut to her head to be stitched and her fractures realigned. She was wearing her uniform including a flak jacket, military trousers and boots, none of her clothes had been unbuttoned or removed, as the book claims, he said. Shwail said Lynch was lying in the crowded reception of the hospital, unconscious and in shock from blood loss. This photo from Time magazine’s November issue features Lynch Now people are saying she was raped… it pains us”Ī rocket-propelled grenade attack on Lynch’s Humvee military vehicle on March 23 left her with a broken leg, arm and ankle and a gash across her head.Įleven other soldiers were killed in the attack in which the Humvee crashed into another vehicle.ĭr Jamal Kadhim Shwail was the first doctor to examine Lynch when she was brought to Nassiriya’s military hospital by Iraqi special police. The ABC television network quoted Lynch, unconscious after her injuries, as saying she did not remember any sexual assault, adding: “Even just the thinking about that, that’s too painful.” In “I am a Soldier, Too: The Jessica Lynch Story” to be published on Tuesday, the author says US military medical records indicated Lynch was raped and sodomised before she was evacuated from a Nassiriya hospital in a US commando raid widely publicised through the world. Lynch came under their care, suffering from multiple injuries, after her convoy was attacked near the southern city of Nassiriya in the initial days of the US-led invasion in March Surgeons who treated her said they were shocked and hurt by accusations that she was sexually assaulted.