Mohammed Odeh al-Rehaief (Arabic: محمد عودة الرهيف; born c. 1970) is an Iraqi attorney who helped the United States armed forces rescue prisoner of war Jessica Lynch from a hospital in Nasiriyah.
That same year, al-Rehaief published the autobiography Because Each Life Is Precious, in which he explains why he decided to help Lynch.
U.S. forces were tipped off as to Lynch's whereabouts by an Iraqi, sympathetic to her plight, who told them she had been tortured and injured but was still alive.
[2] After talking with the Marines, Mohammed was then sent back to the hospital to gather information that was used to plan Lynch's rescue.
[2] Allegedly Mohammed returned to the checkpoint with five different maps of the hospital and the details of the security layout, reaction plan, and shift changes.