This is a very interesting comment left today on one of our earlier Jessica Lynch posts:

I came upon this page by accident, however I read some of the comments and therefore am compelled to respond. I was a member of the G2/G3 staff that planned the ops for the Lynch mission. There were some J2 types from Washington, at least one was an NSA agent, involved too. All total there were about 50 people involved with the planning phase and execution phase, these were compartmentalized for security so the left hand did not know what the right hand was doing, which is part of the confusion. It was carried out under a code-name, like most operations, "blue-reel" was the name of the planning code.

The actual operation was not only staged, it was reheased like a stage show, complete with two videographers, a primary and a backup. We used an Iraqi CIA agent, I say CIA, he could have been NSA, I don't really know. He now is in Washington and he is also making money off the Lynch story. He is phony. We even supplied a folded U.S. flag on the chopper so she could be filmed with a flag. Of course flags are not normally standard equipment on choppers or special ops raids, but neither is a video crew. According to what we were told by psyops, the fake, or staged, operation had a nice basis of truth and that the embellishment would be used as propaganda against the Iraqis. Unfortunately it was used against Americans to bolster support for the war.

Recall this was in the first phase at the time when support was waning, we needed a boost because we still had to push into Baghdad. The Lynch rescue provided the needed boost. There are some other details too, but I'm sure they will come out.

The CID did a good investigation which proves that alot of the rescue was fraudulent. I recommend that you read it, you will be shocked at how the truth was covered up or changed. This operation was known by the highest levels of DOD. I'm sure Sec Rumsfeld knew about it. Those involved were all on TDY, or detached from their units, following the success of the mission, us were transferred back to our parent units. I was NOT on the raid, just the planning.