  Broad iron emission lines are observed in many accreting systems from black
holes in AGN and X-ray binaries to neutron star low-mass X-ray binaries. The
origin of the line broadening is often interpreted as due to dynamical
broadening and relativistic effects. However, alternative interpretations have
been proposed, included broadening due to Compton scattering in a wind or
accretion disk atmosphere. Here we explore the observational signatures
expected from broadening in a wind, in particular that the iron line width
should increase with an increase in the column density of the absorber (due to
an increase in the number of scatterings). We study the data from three neutron
star low-mass X-ray binaries where both a broad iron emission line and
absorption lines are seen simultaneously, and show that there is no significant
correlation between line width and column density. This favors an inner disk
origin for the line broadening rather than scattering in a wind.
