Posted on 07/12/2009 8:06:15 PM PDT by nickcarraway
President Obama has ordered national security officials to look into allegations that the Bush administration resisted efforts to investigate a CIA-backed Afghan warlord over the killings of hundreds of Taliban prisoners in 2001.
In an exclusive, CNN talked with President Obama in Ghana about his order to review alleged deaths of Taliban.
"The indications that this had not been properly investigated just recently was brought to my attention," Obama told CNN's Anderson Cooper in an exclusive interview during the president's visit to Ghana. The full interview will air 10 p.m. Monday.
"So what I've asked my national security team to do is to collect the facts for me that are known, and we'll probably make a decision in terms of how to approach it once we have all of the facts gathered up," Obama said.
The inquiry stems from the deaths of at least 1,000 Taliban prisoners who had surrendered to the U.S.-backed Northern Alliance in late 2001.
The fighters were in the custody of troops led by Gen. Abdul Rashid Dostum, a prominent Afghan warlord who has served as chief of staff of the country's post-Taliban army.
Dostum, a former communist union boss and militia leader who fought against the U.S.-backed mujahedeen in the 1980s, is known for switching sides as Afghanistan's political conflict has evolved. When the United States invaded Afghanistan after the September 11, 2001, attacks on New York and Washington, Dostum sided with the Americans and received military and CIA support to battle the Taliban.
The allegations against him first surfaced in a 2002 Newsweek report, which cited a confidential U.N. memo saying the prisoners died in cramped container trucks while being transported from their Konduz stronghold in northern Afghanistan to Sheberghan prison, west of Dostum's stronghold at Mazar-e Sharif.
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He made this statement while touring a slave fort that exported slaves to the USA.
Give it a break, dude.
Just what I suspected, there are two Jimmy Carters. just damn
Next Obama will be calling for NATIONAL Day of Mourning for fallen Taliban by U.S. forces or any other military effort.
THIS is another laughing stock DISTRACTION as he pushed UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE THROUGH.
Next Obama will be calling for NATIONAL Day of Mourning for fallen Taliban by U.S. forces or any other military effort.
THIS is another laughing stock DISTRACTION as he pushed UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE THROUGH.
Sounds to me that the Leader of the Northern Alliance did exactly what could be expected from the folks in that region of the world — expect no quarter and give none..
In the natural order of things - the Taliban should never be given the opportunity to achieve “prisoner status”...
It is ridiculous for us to pretend that we can change the war fighting techniques of the savages who occupy that part of the world..... Just as it is revealing of Obama’s bias and questionable loyalties to ALWAYS want to investigate the WRONG DAMNED ACTIONS....
The corrupt, lying black racist bastard is America’s enemies best ally...
He'll soon run out of countries then it's on to the MSM.
State controlled media (SCaM) Headline?
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Well, fu(# him and the horse he rode in on.
Yes, let the TOTUS start a war crime investigation in Afghanistan NOW!!! While his mini-surge is underway and our brave guys over there are being shot at and dying as we sit here, and maybe the enemy is on the ropes- the tolly bon could use a little morale boosting about the “crimes” of the US
What a disgusting clueless naive disloyal POS we have for a CinC
Hint to Rahm-bo and Axelrod- check out Tora Bora- I heard in 2001 that Bush and Cheney killed a few “tolly bons” there, too
I will be snoopy dancin the day they throw this seditious POS traitor Obama in prison. Friggin criminal ......
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America will be lucky if she survives the next three and a half years.
I pray she makes it.
This is complete and total bullshiite! Once these clowns took over the prison at Mazar-e Sharif they once again became combatants, they were no longer prisoners.
Dostum may be a questionable character, but he, the CIA, and the Special Ops guys did what had to be done. This investigation is nothing but cover for the Obama Admin.
This is a perfect example of Rope-a-Dope.
The first Jimmy Carter looks like Ronald Reagan when compared to this hellish nightmare called Barack Obama.
If it weren’t for the help of black Africans who helped the white slavers, there would have been no slave trade.
A convenient fact that the state-run media never mentions.
We know that every time they throw something like this at Cheney, it runs up his legal fees, which could do to him what they did to Sarah Palin. They are killing him off by sucking him dry.
Obama’s poll numbers are dropping and some Democrats are resisting the koolaid!!
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