Return-Path: <sentto-279987-4834-1024180180-fc=all.net@returns.groups.yahoo.com> Delivered-To: fc@all.net Received: from 204.181.12.215 [204.181.12.215] by localhost with POP3 (fetchmail-5.7.4) for fc@localhost (single-drop); Sat, 15 Jun 2002 15:32:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 4708 invoked by uid 510); 15 Jun 2002 22:29:48 -0000 Received: from n28.grp.scd.yahoo.com (66.218.66.84) by all.net with SMTP; 15 Jun 2002 22:29:48 -0000 X-eGroups-Return: sentto-279987-4834-1024180180-fc=all.net@returns.groups.yahoo.com Received: from [66.218.67.194] by n28.grp.scd.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 15 Jun 2002 22:29:40 -0000 X-Sender: fc@red.all.net X-Apparently-To: iwar@onelist.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_0_3_2); 15 Jun 2002 22:29:40 -0000 Received: (qmail 31061 invoked from network); 15 Jun 2002 22:29:39 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.217) by m12.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 15 Jun 2002 22:29:39 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO red.all.net) (12.232.72.152) by mta2.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 15 Jun 2002 22:29:39 -0000 Received: (from fc@localhost) by red.all.net (8.11.2/8.11.2) id g5FMTxj32428 for iwar@onelist.com; Sat, 15 Jun 2002 15:29:59 -0700 Message-Id: <200206152229.g5FMTxj32428@red.all.net> To: iwar@onelist.com (Information Warfare Mailing List) Organization: I'm not allowed to say X-Mailer: don't even ask X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL3] From: Fred Cohen <fc@all.net> X-Yahoo-Profile: fcallnet Mailing-List: list iwar@yahoogroups.com; contact iwar-owner@yahoogroups.com Delivered-To: mailing list iwar@yahoogroups.com Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:iwar-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com> Date: Sat, 15 Jun 2002 15:29:59 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [iwar] [fc:US.Tied.to.Massacre.in.Afghanistan] Reply-To: iwar@yahoogroups.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Status: No, hits=3.2 required=5.0 tests=RISK_FREE,FREE_MONEY,DIFFERENT_REPLY_TO version=2.20 X-Spam-Level: *** Onpassed from JUSTWATCH List, a list of US and European legal and Bosnia experts. Commentary from: Thomas Keenan Human Rights Project Bard College Getting a lot of play in Europe and elsewhere - but no reaction in the US except for a UPI report carried by the Washington Times, and a pre-emptive dismissal in the Wall Street Journal, as far as I can tell -- is a documentary called MASSACRE AT MAZAR, which charges that (as South Africa's respected _Independent_ puts it): "American soldiers have been involved in the torture and murder of captured Taliban prisoners, and may have aided in the 'disappearance' of up to 3 000 men in the region of Mazar-i-Sharif, according to Jamie Doran, an Irish documentary film- maker." UPI reporters Gareth Harding and Elizabeth Manning write, on the basis of what apprently is a 20-minute rough-cut of Doran's film, screened in Berlin and Strasbourg earlier this week, After interrogation in Sheberghan jail, the film charges, thousands of Taliban prisoners were driven to the Dasht Leili desert in container trucks by their Northern Alliance captors and summarily executed. Doran's documentary quotes eyewitnesses as saying 30-40 American troops were present at the execution. The Afghan driver of one container truck, in which 200-300 prisoners were crammed, told the film-makers he shot holes in the side to provide ventilation. Over half the prisoners died on route to the desert, the driver says. Another witness, who described smelling rotting flesh from the containers when filling his car with petrol, told the filmmaker: "Blood was leaking from the vehicles. It was horrible." Doran has exclusive footage of the desert scene where the alleged massacre took place. Skulls, clothing and limbs still protrude from the mounds of sand, more than six months after the alleged massacre. The documentary has not yet been broadcast, but Doran's earlier footage of the aftermath of the Qala-i-Changi uprising -- including prisoners who had apparently been shot with their hands tied -- ignited controversy about the conduct of American special operations troops and their Northern Alliance allies during the dying days of the Taliban regime. It bears noting that the desert at Dasht Leili was apparently the scene of a major corpse-disposal operation by the Taliban in 1998, acording to Human Rights Watch ("THE MASSACRE IN MAZAR-I SHARIF"): http://www.hrw.org/reports98/afghan/Afrepor0-02.htm Links below, see also http://www.sueddeutsche.de/aktuell/sz/artikel3366.php http://www.dagsavisen.no/utenriks/2002/06/661322.shtml Thomas Keenan Human Rights Project Bard College ======================================================================= ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Free $5 Love Reading Risk Free! http://us.click.yahoo.com/3PCXaC/PfREAA/Ey.GAA/kgFolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> ------------------ http://all.net/ Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
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