CNN: Obama orders inquiry into Bush/CIA/Afghans re: death of 1,000+ Taliban prisoners in 2001

[garybeck]

(CNN) -- 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.


In an exclusive, CNN talked with President Obama in Ghana about his order to review alleged deaths of Taliban.

"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.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/07/12/obama.afghan.killings/index.html

[Vincardog]

1. Who thinks Obama will be ready to prosecute "once we have all of the facts gathered up" AGAIN?

[MindMatter]

2. You're kidding, right?

[Vincardog]

4. Not kidding just still wishing. How much investigation is required when the perps brag about the

crime on national TV?

[MindMatter]

5. Obama has made it pretty clear

He's going to protect these guys. I guess he has his reasons.

[Vincardog]

6. We as a nation can not move forward until we erase the stain on our national honor that is the

Cheney/bush (mis)administration.
If Obama wants to be remembered and reelected he needs to get with it.

[Patchuli]

7. Maybe if Joe Q Public finally knows

what the media's been hiding, we can move forward...

[mth44sc]

3. Like we forgot or something

the hundreds that were herded into box cars and died there...

[Solly Mack]

8. K&R