After Green Beret Operation, Townspeople Have Questions About Bound Bodies: Townspeople say the target may have been in error and that people in the compound pleaded for their lives, saying they would surrender. Corpses in the compound were burned after being shot; several were found outside with their hands bound behind their backs with heavy strapping. The bodies have beeen buried and are not available for examination. [If true, file under ‘barbarism.’ -FmH] “The Pentagon defends the raid as an appropriate military action,” reports the New York Times correspondent.