Afghan Massacre - The Convoy of Death

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http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8763367484184611493


NYT front page: Bush Admin. covered up Afghan massacre
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=6037426&mesg_id=6037426


Posted on Thursday, December 11, 2008

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/227/story/57649.html

As possible Afghan war-crimes evidence removed, U.S. silent

By Tom Lasseter | McClatchy Newspapers

"DASHT-E LEILI, Afghanistan — Seven years ago, a convoy of container trucks rumbled across northern Afghanistan loaded with a human cargo of suspected Taliban and al Qaida members who'd surrendered to Gen. Abdul Rashid Dostum, an Afghan warlord and a key U.S. ally in ousting the Taliban regime.

When the trucks arrived at a prison in the town of Sheberghan, near Dostum's headquarters, they were filled with corpses. Most of the prisoners had suffocated, and others had been killed by bullets that Dostum's militiamen had fired into the metal containers.

Dostum's men hauled the bodies into the nearby desert and buried them in mass graves, according to Afghan human rights officials. By some estimates, 2,000 men were buried there.

Earlier this year, bulldozers returned to the scene, reportedly exhumed the bones of many of the dead men and removed evidence of the atrocity to sites unknown. In the area where the mass graves once were, there now are gaping pits in the sands of the Dasht-e-Leili desert..."


Afghan Massacre Haunts Pentagon

14 September 2002

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2002/sep/14/afghanistan.lukeharding

[Mari333]

1. Obama admin covering it up to save their own butts imo

as they continue their own little war crimes in Afghanistan.just in case they have an OOPS! to answer for, they dont want to set a precedent by going after Bush's little follies from the past.
sit back and watch the big boys cover for each other.

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2. And Jonathan Turley is right when he says 'you cannot walk

down the hall without tripping over crimes'

That was in an earlier interview, but he continues to make the same arguments, this from last night.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=385&topic_id=335443&mesg_id=335443


"sit back and watch the big boys cover for each other"

I've been watching.

:(

[Solly Mack]

3. K&R

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4. Thanks, how long do we turn a blind eye to these crimes...

and continue the cover up.

:cry:

[Solly Mack]

6. Welcome

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5. John Walker Lindh was in one of these containers...

old thread.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=5710202&mesg_id=5710202

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7. kick n/t

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8. kick for the evening crowd n/t