Todays' (May 7, 2004) has an article which states that Thomas Hammill, the civilian truck driver from Mississippi, was placed under general anesthesia and had surgery on his gunshot wound WHILE HE WAS IN IRAQI CAPTIVITY.
Two points: 1) compares badly with our treatment of prisoners and 2) tends to put the lie to the foreign fighter and dead-ender crap. Of course, I don't recall seeing this story played up much anywhere else.