A few hours later, she was brought to his hospital."She was injured at about seven in the morning," he said. He said the examination turned up no trace of semen.The doctor said Lynch suffered broken bones to her right arm, right leg and thighs and ankle and received a head injury when her Humvee utility vehicle was hit by a rocket-propelled grenade and crashed into another vehicle Eleven soldiers were killed in the attack. But Dr Mahdi Khafazji, an orthopaedic surgeon at Nasiriyah's main hospital, performed surgery on Ms Lynch to repair a fractured femur and said he found no signs that she was raped or sodomised.Dr Khafazji, speaking at his private clinic in Nasiriyah, said he examined her extensively and would have detected signs of sexual assault. Iraqi doctors who treated the American former prisoner of war Jessica Lynch dismissed on Friday claims made in her biography that she was raped by her Iraqi captors. Although Ms Lynch said she has no memory of the sexual assault, medical records cited in I Am a Soldier, Too: The Jessica Lynch Story allege she was raped and sodomised by her Iraqi captors. Few of his critics may want to believe it, but his relaxed appearance suggested that he was.. "You've got a real mess there," he told some of the children as they covered themselves in paint.Later journalists followed the Prince to Oman's largest mosque where he met worshippers. A spokesman for Charles said he was in a "buoyant mood" and concentrating on the tour.

The four-year-old girl, who is deaf, took the art lesson one step further by drawing a long green line on the Prince's fawn coloured suit. Charles laughed as the youngster then attempted to grab his blue polka-dot handkerchief from his top pocket. He encouraged her to continue, saying: "Go on ­ have a go."In another room, he joined in with a sponge painting lesson. Taking a green sponge, Charles dabbed it into bright blue paint and began his own carefully executed creation on a white paper plate, making a ring of blue squares. He sat on a child-sized chair as he helped Isara Al Gbri colour in a picture of a fish by adding green pastel and an orange eye.

As the rest of the world played a feverish game of Chinese whispers with his private life, he was in Oman ­ a land where royal media coverage is conducted with rather more respect. Even the Sultan's divorce is a no-go area for the indigenous press, and mentioning any potential embarrassments involving the royal visitor was quite out of the question. The Prince returns home today, but yesterday, as the British media pack watched eagerly for any gaffes, outbursts, statements or unintended ironies, he seemed relaxed as he visited the Early Intervention Centre for children with disabilities and learning difficulties. On his arrival at the centre, he was presented with two large red flowers by pupils. He turned to five-year-old Safawan Alhabsi, held one of the long-stemmed flowers up to the boy's face like a microphone and asked: "Would you like to say a few words," as he looked at the cameras. When President Bush's speechwriters got to work - starting with the address to Congress on 7 October that led to a resolution authorising the use of force against Iraq - the language became even stronger.Mr Tenet fact-checked the 7 October speech, and seems to have played a major role in every subsequent policy address, including Colin Powell's powerful presentation to the United Nations Security Council on 5 February.