Talibani: government by today; bodies of 50 hostages found
Iraq, Military, 4/21/2005

In a remarkable development, the Iraqi interim President Jalal al-Talibani said that the bodies of more than 50 persons, supposedly for hostages held in al-Madayen town near Baghdad held earlier this week, were found.

Talibani told journalists in Baghdad that these bodies were taken out of the river Tigris to the south of Baghdad and that the authorities have the full names of the killed persons and the criminals.

In the political field, Talibani expressed his hope to announcing the new governmental formation today after 12 weeks from the elections.

He stressed he had met on Wednesday with the designated prime minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari and the prime minister whose term of office expired Eyad Allawi and other officials and urged them to nominate the government by the fall of today noon.

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