Just when we are all being soothed with reports that Pfc. Jessica Lynch suffered her injuries in a Humvee wreck in the ambush of the 507th, I see this report from Newsweek via the MSNBC web site:

NEWSWEEK has learned, however, that U.S. military intelligence officers believe Lynch’s injuries were inflicted after she and other survivors surrendered. “This poor girl,” said one Special Forces captain involved in her rescue. He’s among three military intelligence sources who say she was standing when she surrendered, and had minor injuries at most. That was confirmed by Mehdi Kafaji, the Iraqi orthopedic surgeon who was in charge of her treatment at the hospital in An Nasiriya. “She had blunt-force trauma not consistent with what you’d expect from a car accident,” Kafaji says. He adds that there was no sign of bullet wounds on her body, and her injuries appeared to have been inflicted by a severe beating, probably with numerous rifle butts. Her Fedayeen captors then took her to An Nasiriya’s Saddam General Hospital. She told doctors she had not been sexually assaulted. Lynch’s dramatic rescue by American commandos on April 1, videotaped by a military camera crew, was criticized by hospital officials as unnecessary grandstanding, since the Iraqi intelligence agents guarding her had all fled two days earlier. Indeed, there was no armed resistance to her rescue. But two military intelligence officers involved in planning her rescue told NEWSWEEK they’d learned from “multiple sources” that Iraqi officials were pressuring doctors to amputate her leg so she could more easily be transported to Baghdad. Her injuries were so severe, it still would have been a risky trip. “Their attitude was, if she dies, she dies,” says one intelligence officer. “That’s when we decided, let’s bring in the door kickers.” —Rod Nordland

You already know what I think happened. We shall see with the fullness of time exactly what is the truth and what is conjecture.