Lynch: Military played up rescue too much
Friday, November 7, 2003
CNN) -- Former prisoner of war Jessica Lynch said that she believes the U.S. military over dramatized the story of her rescue in Iraq.
Lynch made those comments in an interview for ABC's "Primetime" to air Tuesday. The network released excerpts of the 90-minute interview Friday.
But a senior U.S. military official denied that the military ever exaggerated the rescue. Inaccuracies in reports of Lynch's ordeal were the fault of the media, which reported the story with incomplete information, the official said
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