[narby]

There have been innumerable cases in the last few months of dozens of people slaughtered mysteriously by bands of gunmen.

I'd put the chances of this being a huge hoax pretty high.

For a fact, the media desperatly *wants* this story to be true.

[Sam Hill]

"For a fact, the media desperatly *wants* this story to be true."

So true. I don't know if you saw the NY Times piece where they talked about how they hired an unnamed "Iraqi writer and historian" to go to Haditha to collect stories about the incident that The Times will then report as gospel:

Times Begs For Tales Of “Marine Massacre” | Sweetness & Light
http://www.sweetness-light.com/archive/the-times-is-desperate-for-tales-of-iraq-massacre/

They are using unnamed reporters now. As long as they will tell them what they want to hear.