As I understand it, after the capture of Mazar-e-Sharif about 600 foreign Taliban troops were holed up in a school outside of the town. They were surrounded by Northern Alliance troops and told to surrender or die. A handful surrendered and were taken away and imprisoned. The remainders were given a last chance and then were destroyed by tank fire. Then the Red Cross went in to bury the bodies. If those are the facts, (and no one disputes them) then why is the media bent on portraying the NA as butchers? Notice the way in which they lie and "bend" the truth. What is their objective? Certainly it is not the truth, or anything close to the truth.
AP: "The foreigners fear a repeat of the summary executions that followed the alliance's takeover of Mazar-e-Sharif and Kabul, the capital. In Geneva, the Red Cross said Thursday it had recovered 400 to 600 bodies in Mazar-e-Sharif but would not say whether they were killed in fighting or executed
REUTERS: "Foreign fighters' fears of retribution will not have been allayed by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), which said up to 600 bodies had been found in the city of Mazar-i-Sharif after its capture two weeks ago by the Alliance. "Yes, we've been talking to both the Northern Alliance and the (U.S.-led) coalition about our concerns over Kunduz," ICRC spokesman Bernard Barrett told Reuters. "There have been stories of executions and that would be a concern too because summary executions are clearly prohibited under the Geneva convention."
CNN: (headline) Hundreds killed' after Mazar-e Sharif takeover
TERMEZ, Uzbekistan (CNN) -- Northern Alliance fighters have killed as many as 600 people since they seized the northern Afghan city of Mazar-e Sharif on Friday, Western officials in the Uzbek border town of Termez have told CNN. "CNN has not been able to independently confirm this information, but Western officials who have daily contact with personnel in Mazar-e Sharif say that the majority of those killed are Pakistani and Kashmiri fighters as well as family members of Chechen fighters who have sided with the Taliban forces in Afghanistan. Western officials say about 100 men are in custody."
CBSNEWS.COM: "The foreigners feared a repeat of the summary executions that followed the alliance's takeover of Mazar-e-Sharif and Kabul. In Geneva, the International Committee of the Red Cross said Thursday it had recovered 400 to 600 bodies in Mazar-e-Sharif but would not say whether they were killed in fighting or executed."
FOX NEWS.COM; "The foreigners fear a repeat of the summary executions that followed the alliance's takeover of Mazar-e-Sharif and Kabul, the capital. In Geneva, the Red Cross said Thursday it had recovered 400 to 600 bodies in Mazar-e-Sharif but would not say whether they were killed in fighting or executed."
> As I understand it, after the capture of Mazar-e-Sharif about 600 foreign > Taliban troops were holed up in a school outside of the town. They were > surrounded by Northern Alliance troops and told to surrender or die. A > handful surrendered and were taken away and imprisoned. The remainders were > given a last chance and then were destroyed by tank fire. Then the Red Cross > went in to bury the bodies. > If those are the facts, (and no one disputes them) then why is the media > bent on portraying the NA as butchers? > Notice the way in which they lie and "bend" the truth. What is their > objective? Certainly it is not the truth, or anything close to the truth.
> AP: > "The foreigners fear a repeat of the summary executions that followed the > alliance's takeover of Mazar-e-Sharif and Kabul, the capital. In Geneva, the > Red Cross said Thursday it had recovered 400 to 600 bodies in Mazar-e-Sharif > but would not say whether they were killed in fighting or executed
> REUTERS: > "Foreign fighters' fears of retribution will not have been allayed by the > International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), which said up to 600 bodies > had been found in the city of Mazar-i-Sharif after its capture two weeks ago > by the Alliance. > "Yes, we've been talking to both the Northern Alliance and the (U.S.-led) > coalition about our concerns over Kunduz," ICRC spokesman Bernard Barrett > told Reuters. > "There have been stories of executions and that would be a concern too > because summary executions are clearly prohibited under the Geneva > convention."
> CNN: > (headline) Hundreds killed' after Mazar-e Sharif takeover
> TERMEZ, Uzbekistan (CNN) -- Northern Alliance fighters have killed as many > as 600 people since they seized the northern Afghan city of Mazar-e Sharif > on Friday, Western officials in the Uzbek border town of Termez have told > CNN. > "CNN has not been able to independently confirm this information, but > Western officials who have daily contact with personnel in Mazar-e Sharif > say that the majority of those killed are Pakistani and Kashmiri fighters as > well as family members of Chechen fighters who have sided with the Taliban > forces in Afghanistan. Western officials say about 100 men are in custody."
> CBSNEWS.COM: > "The foreigners feared a repeat of the summary executions that followed the > alliance's takeover of Mazar-e-Sharif and Kabul. In Geneva, the > International Committee of the Red Cross said Thursday it had recovered 400 > to 600 bodies in Mazar-e-Sharif but would not say whether they were killed > in fighting or executed."
> FOX NEWS.COM; > "The foreigners fear a repeat of the summary executions that followed the > alliance's takeover of Mazar-e-Sharif and Kabul, the capital. In Geneva, the > Red Cross said Thursday it had recovered 400 to 600 bodies in Mazar-e-Sharif > but would not say whether they were killed in fighting or executed."
As you understand it? BY what avenue, through what source? You have informants on the scene? CIA connections? Or could it be that your information came to you via (*shudder*) the MEDIA!? If so, then the hated "media" (newspapers, magazines, television, radio, billboards, newsletters, books, records, tapes, videos, etc.) must actually be telling enough TRUTH to allow you to form your opinion that it's all LIES. To condemn all media, you imbecile, you also condemn the basis of your own misbegotten beliefs. Or could it be that once your meager intellect is stoked to its own comfort level, you simply deflect any excess information as heresy. (No, you numbskull, that last word is not "hearsay.")
