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To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (48333)	4/20/2005 6:12:32 PM
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More than 50 bodies recovered from Iraq river were hostages: president (Updated at 2000 PST) BAGHDAD: The bodies of more than 50 people recovered from the Tigris river were those of hostages abducted in an Iraqi town last week, President Jalal Talabani told reporters on Wednesday. Talabani said the bodies were those of the hostages allegedly seized by Sunni gunmen in the town of Al-Madain, on the southeastern outskirts of the capital. "The terrorists committed crimes there, and it is not true that there were no hostages, there were.," the president said following official denials of any hostage-taking incident. "They were killed and they threw the bodies in the Tigris and more than 50 bodies have been brought out of the Tigris and we have the full names of those who were killed and of those criminals who committed those crimes", he said. A police officer in Suwayrah, 40 kilometres (25 miles) south of Baghdad and about 20 miles downriver from Madain Wednesday said 57 bodies of men, women and children had been recovered from the river. "The decomposing bodies were recovered from the banks of the river between Al-Wahda and Al-Hafriya," the police lieutenant-colonel based in Suwayrah told. It was not immediately know how they had died. "The bodies were buried in a cemetery some three kilometres (1.5 miles) west of Suwayrah after police took pictures of the victims," he added.