The last stand of a CIA man -Taliban prisoners riot: 'Mike' disarmed and killed in bloodbath at Maza

National Post, with files The Associated Press | November 26th, 2001 | Michael Higgins

[wideawake]

If only we had reacted this quickly and effectively at Attica.

[goofus not gallant]

Just before ending his report, he said: "There's great clouds of smoke rising from the fort, from bombing and from fires burning. The fort itself is of mud walls. The walls are about 20 metres high, but you can scale the side. [more gun shots] I wish that guy would stop doing that.

LOL

[GEC]

Kill them all...and let God sort them out.

[43for8]

We must take no more prisoners. Geneva convention my ass. The honorable and correct action to take on behalf of the U.S. citizens and TAXPAYERS is to kill all the terrorist breeders, their women that they breed with and the hate-trained rats they raise to be future terrorists. Including all the hate-America protesters in the so-called "Arab street" that Chrissy Matthews is always so concerned about.

[KayEyeDoubleDee]

good stuff!

[okie_tech]

Geneva what? Rules of War? Are you joking? What a stupid concept.

[blam]

"The Americans used heavily armed AC-130 gunships and MH-60 Black Hawk helicopters to carry out the air strikes."

I won't be long now. (Allah is very busy cataloguing and inventorying the new arrivals)

[LincolnLover]

"They were taken in trucks to Kalai Jangi on the west of Mazar but were not searched properly. It is believed prisoners smuggled weapons into the fort under their tunics.

On Saturday, a prisoner pulled out a grenade and killed himself and two commanders.

Then on Sunday, they revolted..."

I can scarcely understand how, given the nearly 8 to 1 ratio of Taliban prisoners to U.S./British troops at this fort, some of the nearly 1,000 prisoners could have smuggled weapons into the fort; It would be difficult to closely search so many, but one would think it necessary.

What I don't understand at all is how the prisoners were not searched and/or more closely guarded after the grenade incident on Saturday. If one grenade had been brought in to the fort, why not other weapons as well?

Very strange.

[tlrugit]

I suspect that if they had been German and all lined up nice and neat it would have been easy. But these people are pretty chaotic to start with, and if they had planned something from the outset would have been very difficult, even more so given that most of the 'guards' were native troops.

[tlrugit]

I suspect that if they had been German and all lined up nice and neat it would have been easy. But these people are pretty chaotic to start with, and if they had planned something from the outset would have been very difficult, even more so given that most of the 'guards' were native troops.

[PoorMuttly]

Some rule that we can't imprison NAKED prisoners ?????????

[Amore]

Mr. Perry told a colleague that the revolt, which lasted several hours, appeared to have been sparked by the imprisoned Taliban seeing the face of a Western journalist. "It's merely the sight of a Western face. They're here to fight a jihad; they see a Western face; they assume that's who they've come to get," Mr. Perry said as gunfire erupted around him.

What? Is he indicating this never would have happened if they hadn't seen a westerner? Like maybe they were just planning on using their grenades as comfy pillows?

[xm177e2]

Maybe they wanted the Taliban to riot so they could be massacred. I seem to remember Rumsfield saying something last week about how he couldn't let them live to return to their home countries to foster more terrorism. Looks like he's getting what he wanted.

Actually, the whole point of arresting them was so they could figure out which ones were al-Qaida, and only kill/imprison those, and let the others go.

[I got the rope]

BUMP...for "Mike"...God bless you brother.

[Z-28]

Where is the link to the original article?

A post without a link is about as good as hearsay.

[MeekOneGOP]

Thanks for the post!

Here is Mike Spann:

CIA officer Mike Spann, in this undated family photo, is the first American known to be killed in combat in Afghanistan. Johnny ``Mike'' Spann, 32, who entered the Marine Corps and then joined the CIA in June 1999, was killed in action during a prison riot at Mazar-e-Sharif. His body was recovered Wednesday, Nov. 28, 2001 the CIA said, without providing details on the circumstances of Spann's death. (AP Photo/Family Photo via the CIA)

[Wyatt's Torch]

Godspeed and War Eagle Mike.