Skye News has an interview with an Iraqi pharmacist who treated rescued POW Jessica Lynch at the hospital.

During her stay in the hospital she tearfully kept asking about her boyfriend and family, an Iraqi pharmacist who treated her in hospital said.

"She kept saying she wanted to go home", the pharmacist added.

US media reports said she was found with two broken legs, a broken arm and gunshot wounds when she was rescued in a raid by US special forces on the Saddam Hussein Hospital near Nasiriyah.

The pharmacist who treated Private Lynch at the hospital told Sky News reporter Ross Appleyard that Private Lynch had often been seen crying. She asked about her family and kept asking when the war would finish, the pharmacist added.

He said that no soldiers had visited her and she had been treated well. She was regarded as a patient and not as a prisoner of war, the pharmacist added. He said Private Lynch was "very healthy" and had been treated for an injury to her leg only.

Of course, we don't know if the Iraq pharmacist is on the up and up--or if he's covering for Iraqis. We'd like to believe him, but we're still troubled by reports that the hospital was being used as a headquarters for Iraqi soldiers, that 11 other bodies, including those of two U.S. soldiers, have been recovered, that at least one bloodied female U.S. uniform was found with the American flag and name patch torn off and that a battery charger found inside the hospital may have been used as a torture device. Also, we suspect that if Jessica had been treated well at the hospital, the Pentagon would have said so instead of clamming up on the topic. The Skye article also provides this description of the rescue mission:

The Ba'ath Party headquarters and the building housing Saddam Hussein's loyal Fedayeen fighters were attacked in a diversionary strike, he said.

While the gunfight raged, special forces troops went in and rescued Private Lynch from the hospital.

Appleyard said: "Flares lit up the sky and we heard a great deal of gunfire and explosions. There was a huge gunfight - but it was all a diversionary tactic so special forces could go in and rescue Private Lynch."

We read elsewhere that Jessica's parents will be flying to Germany to meet her since she is being brought there before being flown home. That's good.

Update: Brig. Gen. Vincent Brooks, a U.S. Central Command spokesman: Ammunition, mortars, maps and a terrain model were found at the hospital, along with "other things that made it very clear it was being used as a military command post."

On the other 11 bodies:

"We have reason to believe some of them were Americans," said Navy Capt. Frank Thorp, another U.S. Central Command spokesman. He said the military has not confirmed whether they were members of Lynch's unit, the 507th Maintenance Company. "We don't yet know the identity of those people," Thorp said. "And forensics will determine that." Two of the bodies were in a morgue in the hospital, while the nine others were buried outside the building, Brooks said. He said U.S. forces were led to the graves by someone who had been taken into custody.

Here is a photo of interior of hospital where Jessica was kept.

Update: AP reports Pfc. Jessica Lynch arrived at a U.S. air base in southwestern Germany on a C-17 transport plane late Wednesday for treatment at a U.S. military medical center. Her condition was not disclosed, but U.S. officials in Kuwait said she was believed to have broken legs, a broken arm and at least one gunshot wound.