US Forces Believed Safe After Riot

AP ^ | Nov 25. 2001

[Leroy S. Mort]

Some U.S. special forces troops were in an Afghan fortress where Taliban prisoners of war rioted, a Pentagon spokesman said Sunday. All the Americans were believed to be safe, while hundreds of foreign fighters were reported killed.

The uprising started among about 300 ``hard-core Taliban'' prisoners who had smuggled weapons into the fort and tried to fight their way out, spokesman Lt. Col. Dan Stoneking said. U.S. aircraft bombed the Taliban forces during the fighting, he said.

``It appears all U.S. personnel are accounted for'' and believed to be safe, Stoneking said.

The fighters were captured a day earlier in the siege of the northern city of Kunduz. The riot took place outside the northern town of Mazar-e-Sharif, where they were being held, a northern alliance spokesman said.

A northern alliance commander who controlled the fort, Gen. Rashid Dostum, brought in about 500 of his fighters to quell the uprising, Stoneking said.

The fighters were not Afghans, but most were Chechens and Pakistanis, Stoneking said.

Foreign fighters in Kunduz - mainly Arabs, Chechens and Pakistanis - had insisted on security guarantees following reports of summary executions by the northern alliance in Mazar-e-Sharif and Kabul, the Afghan capital.

[cardinal4]

How they were smuggled is really a moot point.We cant trust anyone of an Arab,Islamic,or middle eastern extraction.There are so many"Alliances of Convenience"in the middle east,that for all we know the NA smuggled the weapons in.Im sorry,I dont have a racist bone in my body,but I dont trust a single one of them these days.It makes me angry that these people have forced me to make a fundamental change in my upbringing.

[Neets]

Heh, heh, heh

[realpatriot]

From where did they secrete them,I dare ask?

[Lady Jag]

Probably right where you and I think they secreted them - where they secrete things.

[mlocher]

federalized security staff?

LOL!!! -- but, please replace the '?' with a '!' no doubt in my mind.

[11B3]

You know what I'm talking about....

[Rustynailww]

will this "massacre" be called a bush war crime?

[mlocher]

how the hell are weapons smuggled into a prison camp?

manna from allah

[Paleo Conservative]

How the hell are weapons smuggled into a prison camp? Why aren't they all stripped and searched first?

The Northern Alliance is rather amateurish. Our special forces should have advised them to require the Taliban and Al Qaeda forces to surrender naked. There were reports over the last two weeks about Al Qaeda terrorists blowing themselves up while surrendering and killing NA fighters.

[Lady Jag]

Yeah, but if they're suicidal anyway, they'd just hug an NA general and pray for detonation.

[VA Advogado]

A northern alliance commander who controlled the fort, Gen. Rashid Dostum, brought in about 500 of his fighters to quell the uprising, Stoneking said.

LOL I am sure they use a more effective method of 'quelling' than we do here in our prisons.

[11B3]

Evidently our SF are not that closely involved with the processing of these POS POWs. If they were, they would all have new collars made of det cord as I posted above. Once these collars are put on, it only takes one guard for about 40 prisoners. The guard tells his "charges" hehehe not to even sneeze - the first time someone steps out of line, the guard just holds up his clacker for the det cord, squeezes it, and off with all their heads. Simple, effective, POW management.

[Neets]

I cointenly do my good man, I cointenly do.

[Geronimo]

One US casualty...

[11B3]

Hate to get a guard with a "twitch", huh?

[RGSpincich]

Possibly CIA or CIA contract person killed??? I hope not

If you are killed or captured, we will disavow any knowlwedge of your existence. RIP and Thank You.

[blam]

"Dostum is a fool. He took these "prisoners" so that he could claim Konduz for himself."

He was trying to 'qualify' as a 'moderate' administrator for the billions of dollars in humanitarian aid that will pour into Afghanistan.

[blam]

"MAG: AMERICAN DEAD IN TALIBAN PRISONER REBELLION Sun Nov 25 2001 12:58:29 ET

New York -- TIME magazine correspondent Alex Perry filed an eyewitness report late Sunday of 800 Taliban prisoners in armed rebellion at a Northern Alliance fort near Mazar- I-Sharif. Perry saw 12 Americans and British soldiers fighting with the Northern Alliance against the rebelling prisoners who were grabbing weapons from an armory. The Americans were wearing Air Force uniforms. One of two Americans trapped inside the fort, according to Perry, is dead. "The mission by the Americans and Northern Alliance was to kill every single one of them now."

[Scott from the Left Coast]

Lock 'em all inside, move our guys back a few hundred yards and drop a daisy cutter on the damn place.

[Geronimo]

Hundreds killed...AP