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From: Dawn
Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2001 8:26 AM
Subject: [pttp] Massacred Prisoners' Hands Were Tied
Via Workers World News Service
Reprinted from the Dec. 6, 2001 issue of Workers World newspaper
Massacred Prisoners' Hands Were Tied
- by Deirdre Griswold
The Pentagon has made it clear that it will manage the news coming out of Afghanistan
- either by direct censorship or by bombing the offices of independent news sources
like Al-Jazeera.
Now we know why.
What just happened to hundreds of Taliban prisoners of war at a fortress outside
Kunduz in northern Afghanistan would enrage and sicken anyone who cares about justice
and humanity. Amnesty International on Nov. 28 called for an urgent inquiry into how
the estimated 400 prisoners were killed - only a handful survived - after witnesses
said they had seen about 50 bodies lying in the courtyard, their hands tied behind
their backs.
The official story was that they were killed in an uprising that got out of control.
The Northern Alliance called in air strikes by U.S. jets. When that failed to kill all
the prisoners, oil was poured into the lower chambers of the fortress and set on fire.
As the Taliban tried to escape the flames, a tank mowed them down.
Washington has admitted that a CIA agent was killed in the fighting and five U.S.
Special Forces were injured by U.S. bombs. What was going on at the fortress? Were
prisoners being tortured and executed in summary fashion? Is that why they rebelled?
Or was the "rebellion" just disinformation to cover an out-and-out slaughter of
helpless captives?
Remember, the Taliban released the Western missionaries they had been holding without
a scratch. And for them, this is a defensive war, fought on their own territory
against an enemy that has invaded from 10,000 miles away. How civilized compared to
the barbaric conduct of the Pentagon and its puppet forces.
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