Here's your problem right here, there is no such thing as a well respected European newspaper. It's an oxymoron.
I sat right here and watched a Northern Alliance soldier, shooting over the wall into the prison, catch a bullet in the head 10 feet away from a camera man. The press was RIGHT there, there was no massacre. There was a battle between well armed Taliban and our troops fighting for control of the prison.
You may not like what's cooking in my kitchen, but at least I'm not cooking what your smokin, or what your trying to shovel here.=o)
I basically think we are correct and that our collegue Sandes is wrong.
For essentially the same thing occured at Srebrenica when 10,000 of Nasir Oric's Jihadists attempted a fighting retreat through the forests. The vastly outnumbered BSA was unable to annhilate Oric's 28th BiH division, but was able to inflict significant damage on the division such that it never saw action again.