The other account of the incident was presented in the newspaper articles by Patrick Cockburn[REF] and, working together, Dahr Jamail and Ali al-Fadhily [REF].
A radical Shiite cleric, Ayatollah Mahmud al-Hasani al-Sarkhi, was reported on 6 February 2007, to be calling for an independent inquiry into what "many in Iraq now regard as a 'massacre' in which scores of women and children were killed."