While watching CNN it was interesting when they covered the age of the girl who was gang raped then murdered. Reports say the F.B.I. has listed the girl as 25 years old, while the military is listing her as 20. As I posted earlier today, Reuters obtained the passport of this girl and it has her age at 14 years old. CNN also reported that the Mayor of Mahmudiyah has confirmed she was born in September of 1991, making her age 14 at the time of her death.

Now the question is – why all the discrepancies in her age? If any other investigation in our country had this kind of problem then it would most likely be thrown out. These soldiers have been charged and we do not yet know for certain if the victim was an adult or child. Something is very fishy here and it stinks of being a possibly larger cover-up, maybe in attempts to down play (however much you can) the atrocities of that March day in Iraq.