From the BBC....Via Tapped:

Witnesses told us that the special forces knew that the Iraqi military had fled a day before they swooped on the hospital.

"We were surprised. Why do this? There was no military, there were no soldiers in the hospital," said Dr Anmar Uday, who worked at the hospital.

"It was like a Hollywood film. They cried 'go, go, go', with guns and blanks without bullets, blanks and the sound of explosions. They made a show for the American attack on the hospital -- action movies like Sylvester Stallone or Jackie Chan."

There was one more twist. Two days before the snatch squad arrived, Harith had arranged to deliver Jessica to the Americans in an ambulance. But as the ambulance, with Private Lynch inside, approached a checkpoint American troops opened fire, forcing it to flee back to the hospital. The Americans had almost killed their prize catch.

Tapped isn't sure whether to believe the story.

On the other hand, this kinda fits. It might explain, for instance, the shifting stories about Lynch's injuries. First the Pentagon reported that she had broken bones, but no gunshot wounds. Then, later, she was somehow discovered to have wounds "consistent with low-velocity small arms," according to a family spokesman in Lynch's home town, who, oddly, seems to speak in military jargon. Did they add the story of the gunshot wound after the fact to make it sound more dire? It would also explain why the man who supposedly alerted U.S. forces to Lynch's whereabouts, an Iraqi lawyer known only as Mohammed -- they know he's a lawyer but not his last name, even though, according to Newsweek, he had three visits with a Marine detachment before the raid -- has mysteriously disappeared. If the BBC is to be believed, maybe he didn't exist at all.

The curious part of the story to us has always been that the lawyer disappeared and was reported to have been sent to a refugee camp. If he was really the hero the press made him out to be, why wouldn't he be rewarded? But then , a few weeks ago, reports came out saying that the lawyer and his wife and child had been flown to America where they will receive asylum.