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underpants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-18-03 12:22 PM
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Pfc.Lynch's "savior" on Dateline last night (book selling fluff story)
This was too funny to believe, link below. Mr.Mohammed contiued his already refuted story to sell his book. The NBC "reporter" Jamie Gangel was in full whore mode.

No questions were asked about how or why he walked 6 miles to report to the Marines on Lynch's whereabouts but later drove.

No questions were asked as to how someone who is still learning English was able to communicate to the first Americans he found.

No questions were asked about the fact that nurses and doctors at the hospital knew of no cowrokers (especially on the skeleton crew that was there) who were married to a lawyer.

He raced across a bridge with the bombs JUST missing him (except his eye)but hitting the Fadayeen who were hot on his trail and shooting at him.

He is now working for a lobbying group run by..........Bob Livinston.

Oh and he kung fu fought his way out of his family's apartment against two Saddam loyal neighbors. They actually showed footage of him at a martial arts school here in the US, with an actual re-enactment of his jumping spinning leg kick.

Too funny.

http://www.msnbc.com/news/981671.asp

For the first time, you’re going to hear from a man who says he knows because he was there.

Jamie Gangel: “The story seems almost too good to be true.”


Mohammed says he sneaked past a sleeping guard and managed a quick peek through a window. What he saw changed his life forever. He says a colonel from Saddam’s feared fedayeen was interrogating a heavily bandaged captive, and apparently not getting the answers he wanted.
Mohammed: “He slapped her.”

. His greatest fear was that Saddam’s henchmen would discover he had gone over to the Americans and kill his family. When he returned home the next day, his heart fell. His family was missing and his house had been ransacked. Two neighbors, who were Saddam sympathizers, rushed to capture him. That’s when Mohammed says his kung fu training came in handy. He fought his way out of the house.


Time was not on Mohammed’s side — the Marines had warned him he had to cross Victory Bridge, his escape route, before U.S. Forces began bombing it that afternoon. And then on the way out of the hospital, Mohammed was spotted and chased by Iraqi guards. He raced for the bridge, the fedayeen gaining on him.
Gangel: “They’re shooting at you.”
Mohammed: “And I am very lucky because they missed me. If they didn’t, I wouldn’t be here today.”
By the time he reached the bridge, the bombing had begun. One bomb fell so close that shrapnel from it blinded his left eye. But it also saved his life; it killed the Iraqis chasing him.
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