World News 21-04-2005 who: Former Kurdish guerrilla leader Jalal Talabani what: Says bodies of 50 Shia hostages were dragged from river Tigris where: Iraq when: Wednesday snippet: Shia officials claim the hostages were taken by Sunni fanatics in the farming town of Madain on the southern outskirts of Baghdad, but when Iraqi security forces stormed the town, they found no gunmen and no evidence of hostages. "It is not true that there were no hostages," says President Talabani, quoted in The Telegraph. "There were but they were killed and thrown into the Tigris." Elsewhere, reporter Oliver Poole says notorious terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi has threatened that British soldiers "will not escape Iraq without punishment". [... more]

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