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spanone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-12-05 10:19 AM
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Afghan prisoners tortured and killed by US soldiers....NYTimes
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/12/politics/12detain.html?hp&ex=1110690000&en=08d8095ee01dd4df&ei=5059&partner=AOL

<snip> WASHINGTON, March 11 - Two Afghan prisoners who died in American custody in Afghanistan in December 2002 were chained to the ceiling, kicked and beaten by American soldiers in sustained assaults that caused their deaths, according to Army criminal investigative reports that have not yet been made public. <snip>




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izzie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-12-05 10:31 AM
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1. It is a story that makes one ill.
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Zeke Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-12-05 10:40 AM
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2. Whatever !!!
You'll hear of this story nowhere else.

It will get zero play on the networks and radio.

It'll be fishwrap by sundown.

The nedia WILL NEVER report any negatives about Bush---never.
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Mnemosyne Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-12-05 11:03 AM
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3.  That is bad, this is even worse watch what the rest of the world has seen
Convoy of Death - the killing of thousands of Afghani prisoners at one time that surrendered in 2003. They were placed in sealed containers. Soldiers, under Special forces command, shot into the containers "to make air holes". This documentary will disturb and disgust .

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article3267.htm
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pie Donating Member (782 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-12-05 11:13 AM
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4. The wicked hand of Dostum. My tax dollars at work.
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not systems Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-12-05 11:20 AM
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5. I heard he was going to be in charge of the whole ...
Edited on Sat Mar-12-05 11:21 AM by not systems
Afghan army, basicly number two in the government.
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