Iraqis deny that Lynch was raped
Iraqi doctors who treated former prisoner of war Jessica Lynch dismissed on Friday claims made in her authorized biography that she was raped by her Iraqi captors.
Although Lynch said she has no memory of the sexual assault, medical records cited in “I Am a Soldier, Too: The Jessica Lynch Story,” due for release Tuesday, indicate that she was raped and sodomized by her Iraqi captors following an ambush on her Army convoy.
Dr. Mahdi Khafazji, an orthopedic surgeon at the main hospital in Nasiriyah, Iraq, performed surgery on Lynch to repair a fractured femur after she was captured and said he found no signs that she had been raped or sodomized. He said he had examined her extensively.
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