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Obama Calls For Probe Into 2001 Massacre Of 2,000 POWs by U.S.-Backed Afghan Warlord

President Obamas comments follow initial statements from other officials in his administration Friday who said the Department of Defense and the FBI had no jurisdiction over the mass killing by a US-backed warlord, General Abdul Rashid Dostum. A Pentagon spokesman told the Associated Press: There is no indication that U.S. military forces were there, or involved, or had any knowledge of this, so there was not a full investigation conducted because there was no evidence that there was anything from a DoD perspective to investigate. The infamous Dasht-e-Leili massacre is back in the news in the wake of new evidence published in a New York Times report last Friday that shows the Bush Administration blocked at least 3 federal investigations into the alleged war crimes. The article by journalist James Risen notes that American officials had been reluctant to pursue an investigation because the warlord, General Abdul Rashid Dostum, was on the payroll of the CIA and his militia worked closely with United States Special Forces in 2001. Dostum served as a defense official in the Karzai government. Last year he was suspended for threatening a rival at gunpoint and lived in Turkey in exile. But ahead of the August 20th elections, Karzai has invited him back to the country and reinstated him as military chief of staff. Democracy Now! first covered the massacre six years ago when we aired the award-winning documentary from Jamie Doran Afghan Massacre: Convoy of Death.

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[SouthernCross33]

As if they knew Dostum wouldn't have murdered those foreign taliban fighters. Listen to that Perle treasonous scum, talking about making it better for Afghans by hiring this violent murderous man. Just listen to what Dostum tells those Afghanis

[lesdoyle2000]

1919 Afghan Independence

1979 Jul 3 - 1992 CIA operation Cyclone to destabilise the Afghan Government.

1979 Dec - 1988 Afghan-USSR war

1986–1992 CIA trained Taliban and Al-Qaeda leaders at a CIA camp in Virginia.

British SAS trained them at bomb making

CIA, SAS and ISI supported the rise of the Taliban

1991 CIA looses support of Osama when US troops enter Saudi Arabia

1996 Taliban take control of Afghanistan

2001 The Talibans biggest benefactor was US.

[lesdoyle2000]

1995 UNOCAL sign agreement for pipeline with Turkmenistan

1996 – 2001 Enron Gives Taliban Millions in Effort to Get Afghan Pipeline Built

1997 Taliban visit UNOCAL in Texas

1997 Halliburton (Cheney CEO) gets a contract for exploration in the Caspian Sea basin

1998 UNOCAL annouced that it quit the pipeline project due to Afghan instability

1999 Pentagon “Oil conflicts over production facilities & transport routes, in the Caspian regions”

2000 Bush Cheney elected

[lesdoyle2000]

2001 Feb Taliban leaked information that US was planning to invade in July.

2001 May US military war gamed the scenario of a US attack on Afghanistan

2001 Jul BBC told by Pakistani diplomat US would attack by mid October.

2001 Sep 9, Bush expected to sign plans for war against al-Qaida two days before Sept. 11

2001 Oct 7, US invade Afghanistan (after 3 weeks preparation?)

2004 Afghanistan’s new President is Hamid Karzai, a former UNOCAL adviser

[nyomythus]

War crime must be punished but to suggest or say that is was therefore not right to intervene in Afghanistan is a non sequitur.

[AntiDOGZ]

killerkitty777

Fuck yourself mothafucker.

You mean you are a fucking taliban in Canada

[killerkitty777]

no no fuck YOU..from Canada lol

[AntiDOGZ]

I am an ARIAN. Today in the western world people wanna find out where they come from, ALL the western world is from the Aran-RACE. Their forfathers came from ARIANA. They dont kill their own people.

Pashtuns are the Lost-Arabic-GYPSY-tribes who were lost in Tornado with their camels and tents.

[monak2]

ignorant fuck, and u think u will be safe u dumb ass racist redneck fucker

[AntiDOGZ]

People I am from AFG. I say FUCK Taliban.

There was no Massacre, Only taliban bastards were killed.

Taliban = Arabs, Pakistanis, Southern-Afghans.

FUCK THEM ALLLLLLLLLLL..........