Attention, Islamacist Terrorists! - This

Attention, Islamacist Terrorists! - This sort of things has just got to piss off the likes of Al Quaeda:

Pfc. Jessica Lynch, rescued Tuesday from an Iraqi hospital, fought fiercely and shot several enemy soldiers after Iraqi forces ambushed the Army's 507th Ordnance Maintenance Company, firing her weapon until she ran out of ammunition, U.S. officials said yesterday.

Lynch, a 19-year-old supply clerk, continued firing at the Iraqis even after she sustained multiple gunshot wounds and watched several other soldiers in her unit die around her in fighting March 23, one official said. The ambush took place after a 507th convoy, supporting the advancing 3rd Infantry Division, took a wrong turn near the southern city of Nasiriyah.

"She was fighting to the death," the official said. "She did not want to be taken alive."

OK - let's allow for the possibility that this is creative spin by the military, manipulating the press a la Wag the Dog - hey, it could be a big trick. I doubt it - from a PR perspective, this story didn't need a more sympathetic protagonist. But even if it is a made-up or exaggerated story, so what? This is the kind of thing that has to make Al Quaeda grind its teeth with rage. "Woman takes out a couple of Fedayeen thugs and fires off all her ammo before being captured, probably unconscious. Fedayeen guys violates a slug of Koranic rules by stabbing her after she was incapacitated. And the infidels get her back anyway". See how this is going to play in Karachi?

Posted by Mitch at April 3, 2003 07:00 AM