So what the f&ck is going on. News sources are saying these are the bodies of the hostages that didn't exist.
AP story.
BAGHDAD (AP) - The bodies of more than 50 people have been recovered from the Tigris River and have been identified, President Jalal Talabani said Wednesday. He said the bodies were believed to have been those of hostages seized in a region south of Baghdad earlier this month.
In a separate discovery, another 19 Iraqis were shot to death and left against a bloodstained wall in a soccer stadium in the town of Haditha, about 225 kilometres northwest of Baghdad, an Iraqi reporter and residents said.
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Talabani did not specify when or where the bodies were recovered from the Tigris. However, he gave the information in response to a question about the search for hostages reportedly seized from the area around Madain, 23 km south of Baghdad.
Shiite leaders and government officials claimed last week that Sunni militants had abducted as many as 100 Shiite residents from the area and were threatening to kill them unless all Shiites left. But when Iraqi forces moved into the town of about 1,000 families over the weekend, they found no captives, and residents said they had seen no evidence anyone had been seized.
"Terrorists committed crimes there," Talabani said. "It is not true to say there were no hostages. There were. They were killed, and they threw the bodies into the Tigris.
"We have the full names of those who were killed and those criminals who committed these crimes."
So the only certainty is these bodies do exist who they are or why they were killed and by who is anyone's guess.
WHO SHOULD WE BELIEVE