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Report on the Ambush of Pvt. Jessica Lynch

An Army report will be released today on the details surrounding the ambush of Private Jessica Lynch and her unit in Iraq. The Los Angeles Times has obtained a copy and reports:

The U.S. Army unit that included Pfc. Jessica D. Lynch was ambushed by Iraqi soldiers last March after the Americans, exhausted and isolated, became lost in the city of Nasiriyah with guns that jammed, radios that malfunctioned and heavy trucks that sank into soft sand and marshland, the Army has concluded.

You can read the Exeuctive Summary of the report on the El Paso Times' website here. The full report is available here.

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