digitalreporter wrote:
] ] MIAMI (AP) - Surviving members of a family whose van was
] ] fired on by troops in Iraq said they were traveling
] ] toward allied lines because they thought an air-dropped
] ] leaflet had advised them to flee for safety.
] ]
] ] In a report published Wednesday in the Miami Herald and
] ] other Knight Ridder newspapers, Bakhat Hassan said
] ] American soldiers had waved his family's car through a
] ] checkpoint as they left their village Monday. But at the
] ] next checkpoint, the soldiers fired.
] ]
] ] ``We were thinking these Americans want us to be safe,''
] ] Hassan, 35, said through a translator.
] ]
] ] Hassan, interviewed Tuesday by a Knight Ridder
] ] correspondent at the Mobile Army Surgical Hospital near
] ] Najaf, said 11 members of his family were killed in the
] ] incident - his daughters, aged 2 and 5, his son, 3, his
] ] parents, two older brothers, their wives and two nieces,
] ] ages 12 and 15. His wife, Lamea, who is nine-months
] ] pregnant, said she saw her children die.

I have heard other variations of this story saying that they were forced to do this act. It's so hard during this onslaught of an information war to piece together the truth.

RE: Family Slain at Checkpoint Sought Safety