Former Iraq prisoner of war Jessica Lynch has met the lawyer who provided information that led to her rescue last year.
The meeting with Mohammed Odeh al-Rehaief took place on April 7 in Washington, where Lynch was speaking at a seminar. Al-Rehaief's wife, Iman, and daughter accompanied him to the meeting, which lasted about an hour, Lynch's lawyer, Stephen Goodwin, said Friday.
Lynch was captured March 23, 2003, after her 507th Maintenance Company convoy was ambushed in the southern Iraqi city of Nasiriyah. The Army supply clerk was rescued nine days later after al-Rehaief alerted U.S. forces and mapped out the hospital where she was being held.
"It was a wonderful meeting and I can never control my emotion," al-Rehaief told the Herald-Dispatch of Huntington, W.Va., in Friday's edition.