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15 May, 2003
Jessica Lynch became an icon of the war. An all-American heroine, the story of her capture by the Iraqis and her rescue by US special forces became one of the great patriotic moments of the conflict. It couldn't have happened at a more crucial moment, when the talk was of coalition forces bogged down, of a victory too slow in coming.
The only problem: it wasn't true. The whole thing was virtually made up by the Pentagon. The paragaph above comes from the truth about Jessica Lynch in today's Guardian.
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