> Whie all this was going on I happened to catch
> an interview O'Really did with some Brit journalist
> who had been there. He said the Northern Alliance
> people were basically shooting anyone they captured
> who was not Afghani. There was also the report,
> about which little has been said since, that in the
> run-up to the prison rebellion where CIA guy Mike
> Span was killed, prisoners were being taken out
> and shot, thereby providing an obvious explanation
> for an otherwise suicidal act -- the same one for
> which 'Jihad Johnny' is on trial.
>
> Speaking of the late and lamented Hakki, I'd like
> to remind people he ripped me for predicting a
> U.S. invasion of Iraq this year. The way things
> are going, I might have been off by only a month
> or so.
>
> mbs
>
>
> >
> > If possible, this is even worse than it appears. Kunduz is where
> > (according to a Seymour Hersh article in the New Yorker some
> > months ago), ISI was given 24 hours to get its officers out
> > before the final assault. ISI took advantage of the window to
> > airlift out the main Taliban and al-Qaeda cadre in Kunduz as
> > well. So the poor fucks who suffocated in our sealed containers
> > were the ones who were not important enought for ISI to rescue.
> >
> > Another glorious victory....
> >
> > MM
> >
> > >>> laflame at aaahawk.com 06/13/02 02:38 AM >>>
> > ...
> > --------------------------------------------
> > New film accuses US of war crimes
> >
> > Kate Connolly in Berlin and Rory McCarthy in Islamabad
> > Thursday June 13, 2002
> > The Guardian
> >
> > ...
> >
> > 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. ...
>