Alleged burning of Taliban bodies

There has been a report from the Associated Press that some U.S. soldiers have burned Taliban corpses as part of a psychological warfare tactic. Since cremation is not supported in Islam, this would be a horrible insult to the victims. Also, this would apparently be against the Geneva Convention, unless the bodies were known to be contaminated (smallpox or something like that) and burning was for sanitation purposes. This report is based from a video shot by an independent journalist working for SBS, an Australian news agency, embedded with the U.S. Army 173rd Airborne Brigade and his statement that afterward soldiers taunted the Taliban.

First, I question the existence of the video. Wouldn't we have seen it by now if it was from Australia? If the video exists, I question the validity of the video. It could be fabricated or doctored. If this allegation doesn't hold water, I wonder about the true intentions of the reporter. The video purportedly shows the burning, but it doesn't show the taunting statement.

Basically, I'm saying this. Considering all the lies that the media had spread already (e.g. Newsweek claiming that U.S. troops were desecrating the Quran in Guantanamo Bay, but later retracting the allegations, but not before the story caused riots in Afghanistan), I'm more liable to believe that the media is lying about this before thinking that the troops are guilty. There's an investigation going on now, and I hope they quickly realize that this doesn't hold water.

If this "reporter" made this up, I hope we get him (and maybe even SBS) charged with slander or libel. He has endangered the lives of thousands of servicemen all around the world and tens of thousands of American citizens abroad because of these allegations. And, even if the government proves that this is a complete lie, who in the Muslim world is going to believe it? Most of them think we're evil anyway. And Europe is more content to dislike us than not; After all, capitalism and socialism don't really get along well. The UN is going to get on a high horse, saying that, once again, we're violating international law. So, he did a real good job screwing America over.