[spycatcher]

It's partly the constuction of this sentence that has everyone in a tizzy:

"They are hanging in trees and they are pulling them out 30 at a time."

It doesn't mean there are 30 bodies in each tree. There are just bodies hanging in trees and scores of bodies are being gathered up from many many trees. And that's the very first category probably. Clear out the trees and get the bodies collected on the ground first for the next step in the weeks long process of counting. But when a body comes out of a tree and is staged with others on the ground, it may not be an officially tallied death yet.

So I don't think anyone is shorting the count from what this source says he saw.

[bvw]

"pulling out 30 at a time" == 2 tons of bodies. A pickup up truck load.

[George W. Bush]

It's partly the constuction of this sentence that has everyone in a tizzy: "They are hanging in trees and they are pulling them out 30 at a time." It doesn't mean there are 30 bodies in each tree. There are just bodies hanging in trees and scores of bodies are being gathered up from many many trees.

No, I didn't assume a 30-bodies-per-tree notion though I noticed at least one person did.

However, you grasped plainly, the actual reporting in this 'scoop': thousands of bodies hanging in trees being recovered in batches of 30 but unknown anywhere in the world except in this second-hand report from an anonymous poster on an Internet forum.