Biography of ex-POW Lynch released

FORMER prisoner of war Private Jessica Lynch screamed and struggled with Iraqi doctors trying to anaesthetise her after one of them said they were going to amputate her leg, according to newly released excerpts from her soon-to-be-released authorised biography.

The surgery never took place and Lynch later heard that it was planned so she could be taken more easily to Baghdad, “probably for a propaganda video”, according to excerpts of I Am a Soldier, Too: The Jessica Lynch Story.

Lynch was in an operating room when a doctor said: “We are going to have to amputate your leg.”