NP? Wounded prisoners shot and left to die

[Jerky]

Wow!

Quite the balls they're sporting, eh?

Cheers,
JL

At 10:10 AM 11/28/01 -0600, you wrote:
>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."