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HORROR DEATHS OF THE ENEMY POWS
New York Post ^ | 8/19/02 | ALY SUJO

Posted on 08/19/2002 2:17:37 AM PDT by kattracks

Edited on 05/26/2004 5:08:12 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

Hundreds of Taliban and al Qaeda prisoners captured by Afghanistan's Northern Alliance last November were stuffed into sealed cargo containers and died of asphyxiation, U.N. and human-rights officials charge.

U.N. officials and rights activists say as many as 1,000 fighters may have been left to die in the containers - and the Boston-based Physicians for Human Rights say they have seen the putrefying remains of prisoners who were tied up in their own turbans and buried in mass graves.


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The magazine said there was no suggestion that American forces in the area had any advance knowledge of the killings or had witnessed the prisoners being taken to their deaths. But Harvard University's Jennifer Leaning, an investigator, told the magazine, "The issue nobody wants to discuss is the involvement of U.S. forces. What did the U.S. know and when and where - and what did they do about it?"

Apparently there was no US involvement or the "rights" activists would have been screaming it from the rooftops, but let's talk about what the troops knew and when they knew it anyway. Anything to undermine the US.

Both the Northern Alliance and the Taliban have used "death by container" as a cheap means of mass murder in the past.

Before the US had anything to do with Afghanistan, Ms.Leaning!

1 posted on 08/19/2002 2:17:37 AM PDT by kattracks
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To: kattracks
Hundreds of Taliban and al Qaeda prisoners captured by Afghanistan's Northern Alliance last November were stuffed into sealed cargo containers and died of asphyxiation, U.N. and human-rights officials charge

Good ! but they missed the UN officials

2 posted on 08/19/2002 2:20:18 AM PDT by ATOMIC_PUNK
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To: kattracks
Most unfortunate, most unfortunate. They shall be missed, I'm sure.
3 posted on 08/19/2002 2:21:16 AM PDT by The Great Satan
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To: kattracks
And furthermore,

after seeing this, the rights groups owe the US an apology for it's criticism of the treatment of the prisoners being held at Gitmo!

4 posted on 08/19/2002 2:21:57 AM PDT by kattracks
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To: kattracks
If they are islamist jihadists, they are animal, not human.
5 posted on 08/19/2002 2:23:02 AM PDT by exnavy
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To: kattracks
"But Harvard University's Jennifer Leaning, an investigator, told the magazine, "The issue nobody wants to discuss is the involvement of U.S. forces. What did the U.S. know and when and where - and what did they do about it?"

Man, I get so sick of this crap. To borrow a phrase from this weekend reparations shin-dig, I'd like to slap her just for to improve my mental health.
6 posted on 08/19/2002 2:24:17 AM PDT by Texas_Jarhead
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After 24 hours in sealed containers, no one survived, one eyewitness told this week's edition of Newsweek magazine.

"They opened the doors and the dead bodies spilled out like fish," the eyewitness said. "All their clothes were ripped and wet."

Surviving prisoners have told investigators they licked and chewed each other's skin to stay alive, Newsweek reported.

Not a very reliable eye witness, I wonder why they bothered to include that in the report.

7 posted on 08/19/2002 2:25:48 AM PDT by Brad C.
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To: kattracks
Okay everybody, on three.

THREE

"BOO FRICKIN' HOO"

At least they didn't have to leap 100 floors, be incinerated, or buried under tons of rubble. Sure hope they liked their virgins.

8 posted on 08/19/2002 2:31:17 AM PDT by Wondervixen
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Surviving prisoners have told investigators they licked and chewed each other's skin to stay alive

I guess I'm not clear how that would help them stay alive. Salt? I've heard that some of these taliban chappies have peculiar personal habits, like cleaning their bottoms with toothpaste, but this really takes the biscuit.

9 posted on 08/19/2002 2:31:23 AM PDT by The Great Satan
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To: kattracks
I bet you these are the same guys who reported the "mass genocide" in Kosovo. Now all we have to do is find all those empty mass graves.
10 posted on 08/19/2002 2:32:43 AM PDT by Cacique
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To: The Great Satan
Probably the moisture content of the sweat, they were trying anything to stay alive. But then as the eye witness reported, there were no survivors to report what they did to stay alive.
11 posted on 08/19/2002 2:40:30 AM PDT by Brad C.
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To: kattracks
If the US policy or even the mechanics of handling Taliban prisoners in the least bit promoted or condoned such behavior, we would not be witnessing $9.4 million dollar construction projects in Gitmo to provide their dwellings in captivity, nor their transport, not feeding, clothing, medical treatment, etc.etc.

Even an ISO container with running water, toilet ans HVAC would cost less.

12 posted on 08/19/2002 2:41:56 AM PDT by Cvengr
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To: kattracks
What is this? An article duplicated by the NYT from the Pakistani Press?

Even if it is true, well, cry me a river...


13 posted on 08/19/2002 3:18:34 AM PDT by Caipirabob
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To: The Great Satan
Only by the U.N. officials.
14 posted on 08/19/2002 3:48:57 AM PDT by sheik yerbouty
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To: kattracks
bump
16 posted on 08/19/2002 4:00:36 AM PDT by Maelstrom
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To: Wondervixen
I normally don't watch CNN but nothing was on to our liking other night and CNN had the 1st installment of their 911 special. (part 2 airs this coming Saturday)

Of course its also very hard to turn the dial when watching footage of 911 even though we have seen most of the footage. It always feels like it just happened.

Anyway the footage was dramatic, much of it I had not seen before. They showed the people jumping and closeups of the people trapped at the windows in the upper floors. They also showed the people fleeing the collapse after the first tower collapsed and the eriee silence that followed.

Frankly I was stunned that CNN was showing this footage as even to me it ensured my resolve on the war against terror.

They do not show this footage enough in my book.

17 posted on 08/19/2002 4:37:55 AM PDT by alisasny
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To: kattracks
Has the makings of a great ride at a new Disney East Theme Park.
18 posted on 08/19/2002 4:47:29 AM PDT by Renegade
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To: Renegade
And we can use real live Talibans and Muslims too! No audioanimatronics. As long as the House of Saud wants to play geopolitics with the USA we should not stop toppling despotic regimes of Islamic hatred.
19 posted on 08/19/2002 5:00:16 AM PDT by Jonathan
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To: areafiftyone
see my post 17 about CNN special...

I am still outraged about the reporters that day....

The day speaks for itself without their commentary 11 months later.

20 posted on 08/19/2002 5:23:41 AM PDT by alisasny
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