"She is in a stable condition. She is receiving medical assessment and treatment," a spokeswoman at the US military hospital in Landstuhl, southwest Germany, told AFP.

The spokeswoman gave no details on the injuries but the 19-year-old supply clerk has become a national heroine in the United States as reports of her struggle and the injuries suffered have spread.

President George W. Bush again paid tribute to the "brave soldier" during a speech Thursday while offers and gifts have started flooding in to the family home in the West Virginia village of Palestine.

In the battle that preceded her capture, Lynch was prepared to fight to the death, the Washington Post reported Thursday.

Lynch "continued firing at the Iraqis even after she sustained multiple gunshot wounds and watched several other soldiers in her unit die around her in fighting," the Post wrote, citing a US official.

Lynch "fought fiercely and shot several enemy soldiers ... firing her weapon until she ran out of ammunition," the Post said, citing US officials.

The private watched several other members of her unit die around her, the report added.

"She was fighting to the death," the official was quoted as saying. "She did not want to die."

According to US media reports, her injuries include gunshot and knife wounds and broken arms and a broken leg.

Lynch was flown to Germany from Kuwait on Wednesday and taken to Landstuhl where there is the biggest US millitary hospital outside the United States.

The US reports said members of Lynch's family were due to join her in Germany on Thursday. She will return hom After receiving treatment.

Asked how she felt about her daughter's bravery, Deadra Lynch said: "I'm not surprised."

"That's our Jessie. She's a fighter, and I think that's exactly what I would expect out of her," she told NBC television.

"As a military soldier, she performed her duties well," added Lynch's brother, Greg, who serves with the army at Fort Bragg, North Carolina.

"She's a hero in my book. But as a sister, I'll tell you what," he joked, "I'll be a little more scared now when I go picking a fight."

Lynch, a Private First Class with the 507th Maintenance Company, was snatched from an Iraqi-held hospital in the southern town of Nasiriyah where she had been held for more than a week.

Iraqi forces had ambushed her company, operating in support of the advancing 3rd Infantry Division, on March 23 after it took a wrong turn near Nasiriyah.

Since the rescue, there has been widespread elation in her hometown.

"God's still in the miracle business," read a sign outside a Baptist church in the tiny town of Elizabeth, which is near Palestine.

As the word of the rescue spread, people have poured into Elizabeth. Car horns blared, fire and police vehicles blasted their sirens and church bells pealed in celebration.

"Nothing else in the world could be like it was in town last night," G.W. Cox, a 20-year-old family friend, said Wednesday.

Late Wednesday, a university offered Lynch -- who joined the army to put herself through college -- a full scholarship to pursue her dream of becoming a teacher.

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