Here's the latest BBC story about this, one hour ago, from a reporter who has got there, and talked to people, including a woman in hisoputal who tells how she was shot by the attackers, Her husband, a night watchman, was killed, but she doesn't know that yet.

The dead included a man and his four adult children, who people said had nothing whatever to do with al-Qaeda. And no sign of the alleged Abu Ghadiya (who had been reported as already killed in Iraq some months ago).

Well, maybe they are all lying, and there has been a clever cover up. Or maybe this was another botched affair like the wedding parties that have been wiped out by mistake on several occasions. The refusal of official American sources to comment on it - all the "news" has come from sources who insisted on not being named)- does rather cast a shadow on things.