From: Barry Stoller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [L-I] BBC: 'Americans bomb Taliban prisoners' BBC. 26 November 2001. Americans bomb Taleban prisoners. American aircraft are bombing a fort near the city of Mazar-e-Sharif, in northern Afghanistan, in what appears to be a sustained attack on about 50 Taleban prisoners still holding out in a revolt that has left hundreds dead. At one point, an American bomb went astray, killing six Northern Alliance fighters and seriously injuring five US soldiers. The hurt men were among a number of American special forces inside the fort who are helping to co-ordinate the response of the Northern Alliance. The alliance had detained about 500 non-Afghan Taleban prisoners in Qala-e-Jhangi fortress - many of whom have now been killed in the fighting - following their surrender in Kunduz over the weekend. Several hundred Northern Alliance fighters and Taleban prisoners have been killed. US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said some Taleban had managed to escape. Alliance soldiers emerging from the fort have been describing a bloodbath. The injured US soldiers have been evacuated to Uzbekistan, said General Richard Myers, chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, in Washington. One CIA operative is reported to have died. A journalist who was near Mazar-e-Sharif during the initia stages of the revolt said American and British special forces went into the fort because they thought an American soldier there had been killed, and another had run out of ammunition. Abdul Wahid, a Northern Alliance spokesman, denied his group was using the uprising as an opportunity to get rid of unwanted prisoners, and stressed the alliance was aware of its international obligations. The prisoners are mainly Arabs, Chechens and Pakistanis. Foreign fighters, who are locally regarded as destabilising elements in the country, have often been beaten or killed when territory has fallen to the Northern Alliance in the course of the current conflict. Alliance commanders said the remaining prisoners, trapped in a tower, were running out of ammunition and would not last long. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Barry Stoller http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ProletarianNews _________________________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. Box 66 00841 Helsinki Phone +358-40-7177941 Fax +358-9-7591081 http://www.kominf.pp.fi General class struggle news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe mails to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Geopolitical news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] __________________________________________________
