BBC: The other side of the Lynch story

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Last Updated: Tuesday, 11 November, 2003, 12:38 GMT
The other side of the Lynch story
By Andrew North
BBC correspondent


I remember first reports of the ambush coming in. Frantic radio traffic. American soldiers caught in heavy Iraqi fire. Several killed, others missing.

Soon after, more reports of casualties, from the US marine battalion sent to help the soldiers. "We got three KIAs confirmed," I heard amid the bursts of static. The numbers kept rising.

I was an embedded reporter with the marines, at their command post just outside Nasiriya at the time. They were part of a unit known as Task Force Tarawa, sent to the city with orders to take bridges.

But their soldier compatriots, among them Private Lynch, had got there first - by mistake.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3260473.stm

For another story about the 507th, this time from a military point of view:

http://www.4law.co.il/Le845.htm