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400 Taliban supporters massacred in Kandahar: Prisoners die in containers
dawn ^ | 12 December | By Our Staff Correspondent

Posted on 12/12/2001 10:57:54 AM PST by classygreeneyedblonde

CHAMAN, Dec 11: Anti-Taliban tribal forces have launched a campaign to kill non-Afghan fighters in Kandahar and other parts of southern Afghanistan.

Reports said that over 400 non-Afghan Taliban fighters, mainly Arabs, had been trapped and massacred by tribal militias in and around Kandahar since the Taliban surrendered Kandahar, Hilmand and Zabul.

"A large number of dead bodies of Arab Taliban were found in various parts of Kandahar region," travellers reaching here from different parts of southern Afghanistan said. Tribal forces loyal to different warlords had killed them, they added.

"No tribal group is sparing the Arab Taliban," Amanullah, one of the witnesses, told newsmen near the border. People living in areas close to the Kandahar Airport had buried bodies of 21 Arab fighters the other day, he said, adding that they had been killed by the forces loyal to the governor of Kandahar.

Sources said that other tribal groups were also involved in the killing of non-Afghan Taliban. An uneasy calm prevailed in Kandahar city.

Intense fighting was reported for control of Lashkar Gah, capital of Hilmand.

In Spin Boldak, militiamen loyal to Wakil Abdul Samad and Akhtar Jan asked local people to surrender their weapons. They launched a campaign to deweaponize the area to restore peace. They warned that if people did not comply with the directive, they would raid their homes for recovery of arms and ammunition.

AFP adds: Dozens of Taliban who surrendered to the Northern Alliance died while being transported to a prison in sealed shipping containers, the New York Times reported on Tuesday.

The prisoners, many of them foreign fighters, died during the two to three-day journey from Kunduz to Shibarghan, Afghanistan, witnesses in Shibarghan told the daily.

On Saturday, Northern Alliance commander Colonel General Jurabek said 43 prisoners had died from injuries or asphyxiation in six containers, while three others died from wounds after their arrival in Shibarghan.

Several Pakistani prisoners, however, told the daily that many more people had died in the containers. One prisoner said all but seven people died from lack of air in his container, estimating the number dead at more than 100.

Another prisoner said 13 people died in his container and that the survivors had taken turns at breathing through a hole in the metal wall.

A local truck driver who spoke through acquaintances, said he saw soldiers unloading many bodies from a container outside the city.

The prisoners came from Kunduz, in northern Afghanistan, where a bloody uprising of captured Taliban fighters last month took US-led Afghan forces two weeks to put down, causing the death of some 230 prisoners and one US Central Intelligence Agency officer - the first US combat casualty of the Afghan campaign.


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: taliban
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Looks like they are killing each other
1 posted on 12/12/2001 10:57:54 AM PST by classygreeneyedblonde
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To: classygreeneyedblonde
Looks like they are killing each other

Huh? What does that supposed to mean?

Eldar Pompov
Topeka, KS
2 posted on 12/12/2001 11:02:05 AM PST by ahmedtousay1
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To: classygreeneyedblonde
Prisoners die in containers

Never liked canned meat. Always reminds me of a Monte Python skit on SPAM.

3 posted on 12/12/2001 11:02:33 AM PST by 11th Earl of Mar
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To: classygreeneyedblonde
Sad. Very sa....hey, it's tea time.
4 posted on 12/12/2001 11:04:18 AM PST by AppyPappy
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To: AppyPappy
It is kinda hard to work up a hellovalot of sympathy for dead Taliban, ain't it?
5 posted on 12/12/2001 11:08:39 AM PST by Bubba_Leroy
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To: AppyPappy
With all of that remorse, how can you even think, it's tea time.?
6 posted on 12/12/2001 11:08:49 AM PST by billhilly
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To: classygreeneyedblonde
i estimate this means that over the next twenty years, 800-1200 civilians will not die because these guys were not available for terrorist ops.

how many civilians in england, northern ireland, scotland and wales have died in terrorist acts by from ira "true believer" types after the truce? the number's gotta be in the hundreds. almost every one of these deaths can be traced to an ex-ira guy that the brits let go. no sense to repeat that kind of mistake.

7 posted on 12/12/2001 11:08:58 AM PST by John Hines
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To: ahmedtousay1
I think it means that they are killing each other.
8 posted on 12/12/2001 11:09:05 AM PST by Bahbah
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To: classygreeneyedblonde
Wonder how many foreign talibans will see this post and fight to the death rather than go home?
9 posted on 12/12/2001 11:09:19 AM PST by ZOOKER
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To: classygreeneyedblonde
Most unfortunate.

By the way, how 'bout them Steelers?

10 posted on 12/12/2001 11:11:12 AM PST by daler
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To: ZOOKER
All of them, Ihope.
11 posted on 12/12/2001 11:11:23 AM PST by DinkyDau
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To: ZOOKER
Hopefully all of them
12 posted on 12/12/2001 11:11:40 AM PST by Henk
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To: classygreeneyedblonde
I was just doing the math and for each terrorist that dies your saving 190 lives, therefore 76,000 INNOCENT people will live a long full life because these idiots aren't around anymore. What time was tea being served?
13 posted on 12/12/2001 11:14:12 AM PST by KSCITYBOY
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To: classygreeneyedblonde
What goes around comes around.
14 posted on 12/12/2001 11:16:33 AM PST by Saundra Duffy
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To: classygreeneyedblonde
Terrible. Just terrible...
*Yawn*
Oh well....
15 posted on 12/12/2001 11:17:05 AM PST by Fiddlstix
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To: DinkyDau
Your screen name brings back memories...

I'm really double-minded about this, don't want to see anyone so cruelly killed but also don't want to see terrorists back in business in another country, either.

I guess my point was not about morality of the NA abusing prisoners, more about "is this propoganda designed to discourage taliban troops from surrendering?"

16 posted on 12/12/2001 11:17:14 AM PST by ZOOKER
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To: classygreeneyedblonde
Cry me a river.

Sounds like the natives are plenty pissed at the foreign oppressors.

Too bad Johnny bin Laden wasn't found in a can.

17 posted on 12/12/2001 11:17:56 AM PST by hopespringseternal
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To: classygreeneyedblonde
Looks like they are killing each other

No, it looks like the Northern Alliance is killing captured Taliban, with methods which are quite reminiscent of the Nazi's handling of 'detained' Jews.

18 posted on 12/12/2001 11:18:10 AM PST by Grut
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To: daler
Their doin good
19 posted on 12/12/2001 11:18:13 AM PST by classygreeneyedblonde
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To: Bahbah
Does that mean that people kill each other when they are in combat? It was such an open-ended comment about who "each other" are. Some posters here exhibit a weak mental fortitude. Clarification is sometimes the order of the day.

Temperate in Topeka,
Eldar Pompov
20 posted on 12/12/2001 11:18:32 AM PST by ahmedtousay1
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