"Actually, that's not accurate.
The little girl specifically stated: "I couldn't see their faces very well—only their guns sticking into the doorway."
In FACT, the little girl thought the Iraqi soldiers were responsible: ""We were lying there, bleeding, and it hurt so much. Afterward, some Iraqi soldiers came. They carried us in their arms. I was crying, shouting 'Why did you do this to our family?'
http://www.time.com/time/world/printout/0,8816,1174649,00.html"
I'm going by memory of what I saw yesterday on the morning news (I believe it was ABC)
The girl was speaking her own language, and the station was providing translation.
If my memory serves me correctly she did (according to the translator) say they were American soldiers.
She said they knocked on the door, and when her father went to answer - they shot him through the door. Then they entered and started shooting at everyone.
She claims she survived by pretending to be dead.
Which version? There was "I played dead underneath my bloody brother killed by the Americans." And then there was the "I played dead underneath my bloody mother/father/both (sorry, can't recall) killed by the Americans.
And let's not confuse those stories with the "I was hiding under the bed" story.
Velveeta, l'il help please?
In one interview, she says that, yes. In another interview she says she didn't see who was shooting...just the barrels of their rifles.
Here are the links to 3 different versions of Safa Younis' story:
Safa Younis (also seen spelled as Yunis) Salim.
There was one survivor, Safa Younis Salim, 13, who in an interview said she lived by faking her death. "I pretended that I was dead when my brother's body fell on me and he was bleeding like a faucet," she said.
http://service.spiegel.de/cache/international/0,1518,418464,00.html
Only 13-year-old Safa Younis lived -- saved, she said, by her mother's blood spilling onto her, making her look dead when she fell, limp, in a faint.
http://www.theledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060527/NEWS/605270390/1039
Twelve-year-old Safa says she survived by hiding under the bed.
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/13053200/
Sorry to ping you again, the information was too much to put into one post.
Check out this post and please view the video to see the younger girl Eman tell the reporter that she KNEW ahead of time that the IED was going to go off, so she covered her ears!
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1641124/posts?page=227#223