There was also an article on here yesterday (I believe) that had 3 or 4 different accounts of the events?
This was posted Thursday. This shows a serious discrepancy in this child's memory as it is being reported.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1641986/posts#46
To: Coop
Coop this is nothing more than a trap for our guys, the story changes everyday, little details like this one young girl account. How many BDU's have been reported stolen or missing, whos to say the moles from the Iraqi Army are not doing this dressed as Marines?
Safa Younis Salim, the 12-year-old, said she lay on the ground, covered with her sister's blood, and pretended to be dead while her family died around her. Her sister's blood spurted fast; it was like a water tap, she said.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2003031922_hadithatale01.html
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/
54 posted on 06/01/2006 4:16:08 PM PDT by boxerblues