Afghan Massacres-US special forces closely involved/11-2001

[tlcandie]

http://www.worldlinktv.org/programming/programDescription.php4?code=massacre

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In November, 2001, during the U.S. campaign in Afghanistan, thousands of Taliban prisoners were killed while traveling in sealed containers on their way from Kunduz to a prison at Sheberghan. The bodies of the dead and some who survived were then buried in a mass grave at nearby Dasht-i-Leile. U.S. special forces were closely involved and in charge at the time. Were they involved in a war crime? The Pentagon denies the events. The eyewitnesses tell what happened.
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World LINK TV/Dish Satellite
Broadcast Times
Monday, September 8 4:00 AM
Monday, September 8 10:00 AM


Documentary alleges U.S. complicity in Afghan massacre
http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/news/4799415.htm

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A controversial documentary film, which aired in full for the first time last week on German television, charges that U.S. soldiers were complicit in the mass killing and burial of thousands of Afghan prisoners of war more than a year ago.

``Afghan Massacre: The Convoy of Death,'' directed by former BBC producer and Scottish filmmaker Jamie Doran, presents harrowing footage of human bones protruding from desert mass graves and interviews with eyewitnesses who say the mass killing and summary executions were committed under the watch of U.S. forces.
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Afghan massacre haunts Pentagon
By Luke Harding in Dasht-i-Leili
September 14, 2002
The Guardian
http://www.globalissues.org/Geopolitics/WarOnTerror/Massacre.asp

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A confidential UN memo obtained by Newsweek concluded that there was enough evidence to justify a "fully-fledged criminal investigation". But earlier this week Lakhdar Brahimi, the UN special envoy, said the government was too fragile to investigate further. "Politics is the art of the possible," he said.

The Pentagon has so far declined to answer several tricky questions, among them, were US soldiers present when the containers were first opened at Shiberghan prison?

US intelligence officers spent weeks interrogating Taliban and al-Qaida suspects at the jail, and in time removed 114 prisoners from their cramped, lice-ridden cells to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, where they remain without charge.

But the same soldiers appear to have no knowledge of the mass grave just down the road.
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Bush's Afghan Massacre
by Ted Rall January 29, 2003
http://www.globalpolicy.org/security/issues/afghan/2003/0204mass.htm

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"There has been a cover-up by the Pentagon," says Scottish director Jamie Doran, a former producer for the BBC. "They're hiding behind a wall of secrecy, hoping this story will go away--but it won't." Indeed, "Massacre" has already been shown on German television and to several European parliaments. The United Nations has promised an investigation. But thanks to a virtual media blackout, few Americans are aware that, on the eve of another war, their nation's reputation as a bastion of human rights is rapidly dissipating.
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EDIT: Mods please lock. 'Holy Shit' post references same and I posted this in that thread! Thanks ..

[madrchsod]

1. you can type alot

faster than me..hell i`d still be typing. i know that alot of people don`t have dish but worldlink is worth it. "bridge to bagdad" was outstanding- i have a 17yr old daughter so i can "see" what happening.
worldlink must be getting some big money behind them,someday they may be off the 9000 channels...