NASIRIYAH, Iraq--An American flag folded across her chest, Pfc.Jessica Lynch left Iraq on a stretcher Wednesday after U.S.commandos, acting on a CIA tip, rescued the prisoner of war. But theoperation also brought sad news--the troops found 11 corpses, somebelieved to be Americans.
Lynch, a 19-year-old Army supply clerk from Palestine, W.Va.,arrived at a U.S. air base in southwestern Germany on a C-17transport plane late Wednesday for treatment at a U.S. militarymedical center. Her condition was not disclosed, but U.S. officialsin Kuwait said she was believed to have broken legs, a broken arm andat least one gunshot wound.
She was captured by the Iraqis more than a …
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