Obama orders review of alleged slayings of Taliban in Bush era

CNN ^ | 07/12/09 | CNN

[markedmannerf]

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.

"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.

[Da Coyote]

Warning, warning. Dim-bulb-crat distraction technique being implemented.

[demkicker]

This %#@*ing bastard is going to use his puppeteer media to try and ‘change the subject’ and distract the masses to disguise their negligence and robbery of our treasury. This is getting scarier and scarier.

WAKE UP AMERICA!!!!

[apillar]

Obama - The great protector of terrorist’s liberties and friend to tin pot dictators everywhere...

[exist]

Bush-Cheney need to hire the same lawyers the Black Panthers did.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

The problem with killing Taliban is....?

Improper disposal of toxic waste maybe?

[JeepInMazar]

Is he that stupid?

[SERKIT]

"The indications that this had not been properly investigated just recently was brought to my attention," Obama said of his own vetting during the 2008 campaign, including vital records, dual citizenship records, college records, college finance records, passport records, state senate records, and relationship with Governor Blagojevich. /sarc...

[marron]

They want to investigate Bush because the Northern Alliance killed Taliban.

And they want to investigate Cheney for killing Al Qaeda leaders.

Please, God, let it be so!

[ShandaLear]

This morning on FOX News Sunday, I think it was Bill Kristol who said, Obama can place the blame on Bush all day long, but he can’t hide from the fact that all the solutions for these problems now belong to him. My wording, but it was a good statement. I plan to use it every time I hear “Bush’s Fault,” from here on out.

[FlingWingFlyer]

What’s next? The Germans and Japanese from WWII?

[ozzymandus]

Pardon my bluntness, but this is a bunch of shit. Why not investigate the possible killing of British prisoners during the Revolutionary War? Because there’s nothing in it for the Democrats, that’s why.

[DB]

Agreed. This is all about preoccupying the MSM and public while our economy burns.

[mplsconservative]

Welcome to the -7bama banana republic.

[AHerald]

Obama and the Dems are taking a beating in the polls so the mobs of misdirection are ordered to dust off the pitchforks and torches to hunt down the BushCheneystein monster.

[ShandaLear]

Not gonna work. Most of the public is over the Bush administration, it all belongs to Obama now.

[UCANSEE2]

Dim-bulb-crat distraction technique being implemented.

What's funny is that they don't see how obvious and desperate it appears.

The tail is wagging the dog so much, the dog is gonna bite it off.

[2ndDivisionVet]

Didn't they learn their lesson from hauling Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North before Congress back in the 1980’s?

[ZULU]

This son of a *itch needs to be impeached - BADLY.