This one's going to hit the Shrub club like Lennox Lewis. The US put those Taliban prisoners in the containers and it's all on news video. That's another thing that Bush knew - when he unsigned the ICC treaty. I posted on this in December. Thousands of prisoners in sealed containers right there on the TV screen - anyone could see they were going to die horribly.
-------------------------------------------- New film accuses US of war crimes
Kate Connolly in Berlin and Rory McCarthy in Islamabad Thursday June 13, 2002 The Guardian
A former chairman of Amnesty International yesterday called for an independent investigation into claims that US troops tortured Taliban prisoners and assisted in the disappearance of thousands of others in the war in Afghanistan.
Andrew McEntee said that "very credible evidence" in a British documentary film needed to be investigated. He was speaking after the first showing in Berlin of the film, Massacre at Mazar.
"This film raises questions that will not go away," said Mr McEntee, who led Amnesty International UK in the 1990s and is now an international human rights lawyer.
The documentary describes how thousands of Taliban troops were rounded up after the battle of Kunduz in late November and transported in sealed shipping containers to Sheberghan prison, a jail then under US control in northwestern Afghanistan.
The film alleges that large numbers of the prisoners died during the journey. US troops suggested the drivers take the bodies out into the desert at Dasht-i-Leili for burial. Two men said they were forced to drive hundreds of Taliban, many of whom were still alive, into the desert, and said that the living were shot. Footage showed large areas of compact red sand dotted with the traces of bones, including jaw bones, and pieces of clothing. (...)
My post:
I saw a news report right after the Kala-I Janghi massacre that showed a line of trucks hauling containers that the reporter said were filled with prisoners. She left it at that, not seeing anything odd about transporting people in almost airtight containers. This was the same birdbrain Turkish reporter who covered the fort massacre while Mujahedeen were getting shot practically right next to her. All the papers are carrying the same story, from apparently a single source, about "dozens" of Taliban killed. The prisoners themselves say more than 140 died, when you add it up. I heard there was another TV news report saying the containers had travelled for 4 days, which suggests a much higher death toll, especially if there were no air holes.
Hakki -------------------------------- Captured Taliban suffocated on trip to jail
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Print/0,3858,4317992,00.html
Prison visit uncovers tragic events in wake of revolt at fort
Carlotta Gall in Shibarghan Wednesday December 12, 2001 The Guardian
Dozens of Taliban prisoners died after surrendering to Northern Alliance forces, asphyxiated in the shipping containers used to transport them to prison, witnesses say. (...)