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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lolol...dude that is soooo wrong...about made me blow fruit loops thru my nose...
“Obama’s poll numbers are dropping and some Democrats are resisting the koolaid!!”
This .
Obongo is the sob who needs investigating!
It’s INSANE what he’s getting away with.
Physicians for Human Rights is a leftist/liberal group of anti-American crybabies. Check out their record. It isn’t a pretty one.
Sounds like a successor to the old Communist Party-led Medical Committee for Human Rights, run by a buddy of Obama, Quentin Young (he was at the meeting at Bill Ayers house which launched Obama’s political career). Young took the 5th Amendment when questioned by Congress about his CPUSA membership.
There goes Obama, focusing on the important issues...
It will all come tumbling down. Each day he’s looking worse than Carter ever dreamed of being. They will continue with to use taxpayers money for parties, trips, trust me, the people that counted on him, believed in hope and change yet see them living high on the hog while they lose their jobs, homes..... their adoration will turn to feelings of jealousy, betrayal and disgust.
I LOVE this! God bless Cheney!
Americans will NOT fall for 0bama blaming Bush and destroying our economy with historical spending into liberal BS programs.
Someone needs to impeach these radicals out.
Yes, we have a real Dirtbag in the White house. If we get control of congress before 2012, finding an impeachable offense should be no problem with this lawless bastard.
Dead Taliban? My heart breaks
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NOTHING more about this (about a non-operational scheme to assassinate AQ leaders. Is this wrong?)
And I understand Cheney said nothing of the sort. Any one with more info?
Next thing you kno, Osamabama will be investigating Orkin for killing roaches.
When are they going to learn that eradicating Talibaners is the ONLY cure?
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