[Barney59]

It would not surprise me to find that the terrorists killed these people to stage this "story".

Or they made a run on the local morgue for their sick and ghoulish props. Some of the corpses were already showing signs of rigor mortis in the shots...

[randog]

Or they made a run on the local morgue for their sick and ghoulish props.

That has been suggested. Saddam used an identical tactic to show the West how the sanctions were killing Iraqi children. Our news media then, as now, ate it up with nary a question.