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Re: Lynch 'Lawyer' Honored
From: POW-MIA InterNetwork
Date: May 09, 2003
"Lawyer honoured for POW aid
09may03
AN Iraqi lawyer who helped US troops rescue American prisoner of war Jessica Lynch has been honoured by a US state lawyers' group.
The Delaware Bar Association said the award granted yesterday to Mohammed Odeh al-Rehaief, 32, reflects the best quality of lawyers - helping defenceless people being treated unfairly.
Al-Rehaief did not make remarks after receiving the award, and he declined to speak with reporters. The bar association asked the media to avoid taking photographs of al-Rehaief, his wife and 5-year-old daughter for security reasons.
The bar association also presented al-Rehaief with $US1000 ($1560).
Al-Rehaief and his family were granted asylum in the United States last month and plan to settle in the Washington, DC, area. He has been offered a job with the Livingston Group, a Washington lobbying firm, said Claire de Matteis, senior counsel to Delaware's Senator Joseph Biden, and a member of the bar association's executive committee.
Private First Class Lynch, a 20-year-old Army supply clerk, was captured March 23 after her 507th Maintenance Company convoy was ambushed in the southern Iraqi city of Nasiriyah. She was rescued from a hospital in the city on April 1 after al-Rehaief mapped out her location for US Marines.
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