Confusion on Al-Mada’an

So the story on the gun­men abduct­ing 60 Iraqi hostages turn out to true after a day of con­fu­sion, yes­ter­day and on Al-Jazeera, Muq­tada al-sadr deny that any hostage been taken in the city of al-mada’an, here [Arabic]

A spokesman from Al-Sadr office in Bagh­dad (Al-Draji) denies the news that about 80 per­sons been taken as hostages in Al-Mada’an city south Iraq.

A day later (today) and again on Al-Jazeera, they are con­firm­ing that mil­i­tary oper­a­tions on it’s way to free the hostages, here [Arabic]

A shia offi­cial source told Al-Jazeera that Iraqi sources with sup­port of the Amer­i­can forces started a major mil­i­tary oper­a­tion to free the hostages in Al-mada’an city. Gun­men threat to kill 150 shia hostages in 24 hours.

But there is some­thing new in this arti­cle didn’t reported before by another media sources, Ira­ni­ans are involved .

The Imam of mosque in Al-Mada’an city told Al-jazeera that the whole prob­lem started after 300 Ira­ni­ans entered the city, their leader Muhammed Mahud wants to revenge from Iraqis so they started the loot­ing in the city.

On the same report, more confusion.

Al-jazeera called the police sta­tion in the city, a lieu­tenant answered the call and say that every­thing is calm in the city and there are no prob­lems at all.

Cnn reported today a new ver­sion of the story, here

A promi­nent Sunni tribe had kid­napped sev­eral mem­bers of a rival Shi­ite tribe, and in response, the Shi­ite tribe kid­napped sev­eral Sunnis.

It is a ter­ror act if it’s a tribal war or not, these are civil­ians held hostages and who­ever did that is a ter­ror­ist. I wish safety for these hostages so they can go back to their fam­i­lies and fair jus­tice for these terrorists.