Afghanistan: Interpreter shoots and kills 2 US Soldiers

[Mari333]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8489131.stm

lets get our soldiers home and get the hell out of that clusterfck.

[Robb]

1. An argument about payment, FTA

...although who really knows. :(

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[NNN0LHI]

3. The Afghanistan killing fields began a long time ago. On our watch

http://archives.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/asiapcf/central/08/29/afghanistan.mass.graves/

Mass graves raise questions in Afghanistan

How did Taliban prisoners die, and who knew?

August 29, 2002 Posted: 6:21 PM EDT (2221 GMT)


MAZAR-E SHARIF, Afghanistan (CNN) -- In the stifling desert of northern Afghanistan, lying as still as the air, is evidence of the gruesome fate that met hundreds of Taliban fighters late last year.

The discovery of numerous mass graves, filled with bones and skulls, raises questions about exactly what happened to prisoners after they were captured last November in the northern city of Konduz by the U.S.-backed forces of Northern Alliance Gen. Adbul Rashid Dostum.

The ground around Mazar-e-Sharif offers abundant evidence of mass death. In May, investigators with the Boston, Massachusetts-based group Physicians for Human Rights examined a grave in Dasht-e-Leili and said hundreds of victims had been dumped there.

But how and why the men died is still uncertain.

Human-rights groups have accused Afghan forces of suffocating hundreds of Taliban fighters by locking them in unventilated steel shipping containers after their capture. The captives were taken to a prison in Sheberghan, some 200 miles from Konduz.

Not all of them were dead on arrival. Many are still behind bars at Sheberghan, where they told CNN of their surrender and the aftermath.

They said they were packed tightly into trucks and shipping containers for the trip to the prison, and that many of their Taliban comrades did not survive.

"We don't know how many people died," one prisoner said. "We know that we were about 12,000 people, and now there is only 4,000 or 3,500. We don't know where are the other people."

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[Mari333]

5. [phone]

[customerserviceguy]

7. We can't play kindergarten cop there forever

May as well do it today, and let them sort it out. How many lives would we have saved if we had simply pulled out of Vietnam in 1968? We would have gotten the same final result in the end.

[laughingliberal]

8. Hmmm. opposes spending for 'wasteful' projects and supports war. nt

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

6. FUBAR is the most apt description of the American occupation of Afghanistan. K&R

And, it's getting more fucked-up as it proceeds to it's inevitable end.

[Yurovsky]

9. Time to end the occupation and bring our soldiers home...

there is NOTHING in our national interest in remaining in Afghanistan.

I read in a Rolling Stone interview w/ Bin Laden's son Omar that the US invasion is what OBL wanted ... to draw Americans into the battle and kill them, just as he'd killed Russians 20 years earlier.

Chimpy took the bait, and now young Americans die for no reason. President Obama needs to man up and tell the warlords at the Pentagon that the party's over. Time to come home.