NP? Wounded prisoners shot and left to die

[David Morris]

>From: Doug Millison <millison at online-journalist.com>
>If those Taliban soldiers had surrendered, how was it that the Northern 
>Alliance allowed them to keep their weapons?
>
>It smells rotten, like a set-up job to give the US an excuse to kill the 
>prisoners as Rumsfeld has been urging for more than a week now.  Time and 
>more information will tell.

If you want more information, try reading some reports from journalists 
reporting from the location instead of relying on your olfactory prowess 
(some "online-journalist" you are!):

http://www.guardian.co.uk/afghanistan/story/0,1284,608101,00.html
Luke Harding in Mazar-i-Sharif
Wednesday November 28, 2001
The Guardian

The spectacular revolt of Taliban prisoners in the fort in Mazar-i-Sharif 
finally ended last night when troops used a tank to kill the remaining 
hardliners who had improbably survived repeated American air strikes on 
their basement hideout.

Early yesterday, US planes blasted the mini-citadel inside the fort where 
the Taliban's foreign fighters had been holed up for the past two days. 
Incredibly, some survived. At 8am they even launched a counterattack, 
shooting dead several soldiers who had been sniping at them from ramparts.

Government troops blasted the Taliban with mortars, rockets and withering 
gunfire. By mid-afternoon, only three of the 400-odd foreign prisoners who 
had originally stormed the castle on Sunday were still alive. They refused 
all offers of surrender, shouting: "You are American people. We won't 
surrender to you."



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