NYT reports "Mr. Talabani said hostages had been killed and their bodies thrown into the Tigris, he offered no documentation that could help independently verify his statement, like a list of victims, photographs of the bodies or the names of witnesses."
and aljazeera reports "The reporter did not see any military identification documents on the bodies and it was not immediately possible to confirm the claim."
I dont expect NYT to report from madaeen of iraq meticulously, but aljazeera deliberately ignores the fact and implicitly defends hostage taker radicals. specially when it captions the pic of the page of hostage taking of innocent people by ultra radiacl group of zarqavi related insane salafis/vahhabis by : "Iraqi police and army personnel[!!] are being attacked regularly" and tries to represent these mads as the representatives of the anti-occupation movement of Iraq.
just I got the list of victims found in the river, beside a bunch of bloodcurdling photographs which probably I will send to rotten.
The list of victims of hostage taking of madaen by Zarqavi related vahhabis.