How did Taliban prisoners die, and who knew?

CNN ^ | 8/29/2002 | Matthew Chance

[ArcLight]

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.

[bfree]

The Taliban prisoners died? Too f"ing bad. They won't be able to attack Americans anymore.

[lizma]

Is this suppose to be a bad thing??????

[I_Love_My_Husband]

I skimmed the article and they're trying to blame US for this.

On the other hand...I don't really care what happens to OBL's taliban and I want to say "who cares?"

[swarthyguy]

This lame story again.

It'll be like the massacre of Jenin.

>>. It's all innuendo and implications.

There was a battle there. The scumbag badguys died in large numbers. That's a GREAT THING.

The NA moved the bodies into a common grave. That's not evidence of a massacre. Same tactic used in the Balkan civil war to vilify the Serbs. Now the same tactic is being used against our troops.

Frankly, who cares. I have no doubt elements of the NA took revenge for the atrocities of the talibums and the alqueerda. Who can blame them for that? The talibum bombed a soccer game, blew up Buddhist statues and massacred thousands in Herat and MazariSharif.

Payback's a bitch.

[M. Thatcher]

Someone should explain to CNN what war is.

[John Jorsett]

After reading about the tortures inflicted by the Taliban on the population, like beating people to a pulp with water-soaked staves, then throwing them into cells with no food or water until they died, I don't have much room for sympathy. Suffocation is probably an easier death than they gave most of their victims.

[chemainus]

swarthyguy is absolutely correct here...read his post carefully again...and if you need "proof" ( I take a brother's word or ignore the post) then go to the Army Leavenworth Archives and read the many articles by Lt Col John Sray about the Muslim and Croat use of just these tactics from the 80's until now

[Fzob]

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.

I believe it was Dostum who said after the prison uprising, something along the lines of, "the problem has been solved, they're all dead."

Dostum is not a nice guy, but I'm sure somehow the hate America first crowd will blame us.

[xfmrman]

Rub, Rub, Squint, Squint, Poke, Poke....Darn I just can't get the tears flowing. Sounds like a good place to build a hog farm.

[Diogenesis]

Who cares?

They deserve to die.

[PhiKapMom]

On the other hand...I don't really care what happens to OBL's taliban and I want to say "who cares?"

"Who Cares?" is exactly what I was thinking! I feel no sympathy for those lowlifes because they had no regard for human life with the way they ran Afghanistan!

[sistergoldenhair]

Physicians for Human Rights

Ah, good old Dr. Herold, the guy that told us 3500 Afghan civilians died in the initial bombing attacks.

[Cultural Jihad]

Remember when Gorbachev and his wife were in their vacation home when the revolution came which overthrew them? Raisa claimed she had a nervous breakdown just thinking what the KGB would do to her. Sure, we're sorry for them, but not as sorry as we would have been had they been innocent.

[RightOnline]

Gee. Darn. A bunch of Talibunny "warriors" who'd give anything to slit our collective throats bit the dust.

Cry me a river.

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[Long Cut]

Cool. Most of the soil over there looks as if it could use some decent fertilizer. A few more incidents like this and some worthwhile crops might yet take root.

Hopefully, this means of land reclamation will find use in other nations on that side of the world.

"Worm's Meat: The final, finished product of which we are the raw material." - Ambrose Bierce

[contessa machiaveli]

am i supposed to feel bad about this? OK. i feel so, very, very,bad.

[sistergoldenhair]

am i supposed to feel bad about this? OK. i feel so, very, very,bad.

I feel even worse about the massacre in Jenin. </SARCASM>

[IronJack]

How did Taliban prisoners die, and who knew?

And who cares?

[TheRedSoxWinThePennant]

How did Taliban prisoners die, and who knew?

if a taliban prisoner dies in his cell will anyone in america give a f@#K

who cares cnn