• WilsonWilson [comrade/them, he/him]@hexbear.net
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    7 months ago

    Shani Louk is the new Jessica Lynch

    In the initial press briefing on April 2, 2003, the Pentagon released a five-minute video of the rescue and claimed that Lynch had stab and bullet wounds, and that she had been slapped while on her hospital bed and interrogated.[16]

    Iraqi doctors and nurses later interviewed, including Harith Al-Houssona, a doctor in the Nasiriyah hospital, described Lynch’s injuries as “a broken arm, a broken thigh, and a dislocated ankle”. According to Al-Houssona, there was no sign of gunshot or stab wounds, and Lynch’s injuries were consistent with those that would be suffered in a car accident, which Lynch verified when she stated that she got hurt when her Humvee flipped and broke her leg. Al-Houssona’s account of events was later confirmed in a U.S. Army report leaked on July 10, 2003.

    • CriticalResist8OPA
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      7 months ago

      Thanks for sharing, I wasn’t aware of her. It’s not surprising that there’s been others before Shani, it’s a common feature of ethnonational states because how could it not be.