...It seems the plucky young private may not have fought like Rambo when her unit took a wrong turn into an Iraqi ambush. She may not have been shot and stabbed in that firefight, which may or may not have happened...

Yeah, all the people from her unit who were killed tripped on their shoelaces and shot themselves with their own guns.

...and it seems likely now that she was not mistreated at an Iraqi hospital. Her heroic rescuers did not fight their way up the hospital halls; indeed, the hospital staff may have been eager to hand her over, had perhaps even tried to the day before, only to be turned back by skittish American soldiers at a roadblock.

Her rescuers were entering an unknown situation, a hospital that had in fact recently been a military outpost, in an environment where armed enemy soldiers disguising themselves as harmless and cooperative civilians--like doctors, for example--was standard operating procedure. It looks like a cakewalk in hindsight, but then doesn't everything.

At least the article clarifies what was obvious all along...that the BBC was full of crap, and the Pentagon did not deliberately create a phony rescue scenario.