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Here are the links to 3 different versions of Safa Younis' story:

Safa (also spelled Saffa) 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/

Thank you so much...I would have sent the poster to where I had read your post...but there are so many different threads it would have taken a while.

I find so many things about this that don't "jibe" and this is a good example...of course the ones that want to blame the Marines will discount her different stories because of her age...and the trauma.

I suspect we will get "evidence" in dribs and drabs...until the REAL report is released.

Thanks for posting those links..

Insurgents planted the bomb off one of Haditha's main streets, putting it on a side road, between two vacant lots, to try to avoid killing -- and further alienating -- Haditha's civilians, residents said.

No doubt whose side they are on. Thanks for posting these links.

Thanks for those links.

I think one of your other posts is very telling:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1640317/posts

Posted by Velveeta to Scotswife
On News/Activism 05/31/2006 8:55:21 AM EDT · 426 of 468

It also corraborates the testimony of a young girl who survived the massacre - she said it was American soldiers who came into her home.
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 am so bothered by this. My biggest fear is that this is setting the stage for what we saw happen during Viet Nam. We know life is never how MSM presents it...that's why we Freep, LOL!

But what about the rest of the country? I worry this will turn the tide of public opinion against the military.

I remember the 60's. This country has never come to terms with the way our Viet Nam Vets were treated. Fast forward to the election...the Swifties were treated the exact same way. They were called liars(remember LawrenceO'Donnell?).

I watched Hardball the other night and they were all salivating. Massacre. Murder. Cold Blood. It was sickening.