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.

[OpeEdMunkey]

They’re Taliban.

They’re dead.

What is there to investigate?

[lonestar]

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.

Exactly!!!

[rbg81]

This will end with us handing Afghanistan back to the Taliban and Iraq to Iran with the requisite apologies, groveling, and public show trials.

[NoLibZone]

Whose asking?

Let see his background info first.