Is the captured woman British sailor, Faye Turney, the new Jessica Lynch?

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Perhaps I'm cynical, but this just hit my BS meter when I heard about it.

Just hours before she was captured, she was interviewed for television. The gist of the interview was that she was doing what she was doing to provide for her little 3 year old daughter.

http://news.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=479032007

Sailor captured by Iranians 'under no illusion on risk of Gulf mission'


A YOUNG mother who is among 15 sailors being held by the Iranians stoically played down the dangers of her mission in an interview only hours before she was seized at gunpoint in the Persian Gulf.

Leading Seaman Faye Turney, the sole woman held captive by Iran's Revolutionary Guards, had told the BBC last week she was under no illusion about the risks.

"Sometimes you may be called upon, and, when you do, you've just got to deal with it and get on with it," she said.

"My parents made sure I was under no illusion that I could and can go to war at any time and that's the choice I made," the 26-year-old said.

Television footage shows LS Turney in uniform and travelling in a rigid inflatable boat.

Her family described the capture as a "very distressing time". Her husband Adam, who is also a Navy seaman, has been given special leave to return home to care for the couple's three-year-old daughter, Molly