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Obama Covers Up A Dozen My Lais: Were 3,000 Afghans
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nothing more than
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administration
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a Bush-era war crime.
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Obama doesn't want
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Dasht-i-Leili. First, the
political class and U.S.
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this story for six to Presidente
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participating in the
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[56069] President Obama told CNN. Then, he said, "we'll probably make a decision in
terms of how to approach it once we have all the facts together."

Probably.

Such was Obama's tepid reaction to a New York Times cover story about an
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alleged "mass killing of hundreds, perhaps thousands, of Taliban prisoners of
war by the forces of an American-backed warlord during the 2001 invasion of :: Lynching
Afghanistan." Saddam
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Obama sounds so reasonable. Doesn't he always? But his reaction to the
massacre in the Dasht-i-Leili desert is nothing more than the latest case of
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his administration refusing to investigate a Bush-era war crime.

There are two things Obama doesn't want you to know about Dasht-i-Leili.
First, the political class and U.S. state-controlled media have sat on this story

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for six to seven years. Second, U.S. troops are accused of participating in the
atrocities, which involved 12 times as many murders as My Lai.

The last major battle for northern Afghanistan took place in the city of
Kunduz. After a weeks-long siege marked by treachery--at one point, the
Taliban pretended to surrender, then turned their weapons on advancing
End Gaza Siege Northern Alliance solders--at least 8,000 Taliban POWs fell under the control
of General Abdul Rashid Dostum, an Uzbek warlord with a long record of
exceptional brutality.
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I described what happened next in my column dated January 28, 2003: Poletti
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Sheberghan prison in the backs of open-air Soviet-era pick-up
trucks...They stopped and commandeered private container trucks
to transport the other 3,000 prisoners. 'It was awful,' Irfan Azgar
Ali, a survivor of the trip, told England's Guardian newspaper.
:: Segnalaci un articolo 'They crammed us into sealed shipping containers. We had no
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water for 20 hours. We banged on the side of the container.
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There was no air and it was very hot. There were 300 of us in my
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"One Afghan trucker, forced to drive one such container, says
that the prisoners began to beg for air. Northern Alliance
commanders 'told us to stop the trucks, and we came down. After
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According to Scottish filmmaker Jamie Doran, the butchery continued for

three days.

:: ONU - XX Doran's documentary about these events, "Afghan Massacre: The Convoy of
Assemblea Generale
(1965): Death," was shown in 50 countries but couldn't get a U.S. release by a media
La XX Assemblea wallowing in the amped-up pseudo-patriotism that marked 2002. Doran's film
Generale dell’ONU broke the story. (You can watch it online here.*)
(1965) dichiara "la
legittimità della lotta
da parte dei popoli Afghanistan massacre -- the convoy of death pt. 1
sotto oppressione
coloniale, per
esercitare il loro diritto
all' autodeter-
minazione e
all'indipendenza".
Inoltre, l'Assemblea
invita "tutti gli Stati a
fornire assistenza
morale e materiale ai "Neoconned" and
movimenti di "Neoconned Again
liberazione nazionale two new collection
nei territori coloniali". of essays

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"L'Assemblea
Generale dichiara che:
la soggezione dei
popoli a dominio
straniero, conquista e
asservimento
costituisce una
negazione dei diritti
umani fondamentali, è
contraria alla Carta
delle Nazioni Unite ed
è un impedimento alla
America's "War on
promozione della
Terrorism", book b
pace e della
Michel Chossudovsk
cooperazione
mondiali.
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