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Monstrous Atrocity Committed by U.S. Air Force and Dostum Communists
500 Islamic Volunteers Killed in U.S. Air Strikes in Prison Compound
50 Executed by Dostum Bandits (hands tied behind backs)
72 Died in Attempt to Fight Back with Snatched Weapons
It's difficult to arrive at factual accounts of the situation in
Afghanistan owing to the destruction by U.S. bombers of Al-Jazeerah TV
service. American media accounts are fragmentary, contradictory and
filled
with hate talk about the Islamic volunteers.
After 3 days of watching American accounts of the Mazare Sharif
massacre ('uprising' as U.S. reporters like to call it), our media
monitor
has pieced together the following report:
Many of the defenders of Konduz were persuaded to give up their
positions on promises from northern alliance that they would not be
harmed.
The U.S., however, was concerned that the "foreign fighters" might also
survive. (Note the terminology here: Islamists in an Islamic land are
being
labelled "foreigners" while Americans are to be seen as saviors.)
About 650 of these "foreigners" were taken, some with their
sidearms,
to a fortress used as a prison in Mazare Sharif. They were assured that
they
would be safe and would after a while be transferred to UN control.
The Americans were perturbed by the survival of the Islamists, who
are
en bloc considered terrorists by the U.S. although they have never
fought
against America. With the help of Communist warlord Dostum, the U.S.
attacked
the prisoners-of-war in the holding compound. CIA agents were sent to
call in
air strikes on the compound. MASSIVE BOMBS WERE DROPPED ON THE
PRISONERS.
Nearly 500 defenseless Islamists were slaughtered in this rain of bombs
concentrated into a very narrow area.
Some of the prisoners tried to run for their lives. Of these 50
were
caught, tied up and executed by the Dostum communists.
The rest in great desperation took cover and found caches of old
weapons in the fortress area. Some of them used their sidearms and some
even
snatched weapons from Dostum's men. These 72 fighters killed more than
50 of
Dostum's bandits before they were killed. They also took a CIA agent
with
them who had been directing the air strikes.
U.S. media have clearly admitted the following:
1. Most of the "foreigners" were killed in U.S. AIR STRIKES.
2. FIFTY "foreigners" were found EXECUTED with their hands tied behind
their
backs.
3. The U.S. media have shown Dostum bandits firing into the compound
as if
carrying out a turkey shoot, gunning down the final 72 who were
fighting back.
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In the circumstances, this is the best we could piece together from 3
days of
fragmentary U.S. reporting. The situation might have been worse than
what we
could make out. The monstrous atrocity committed against the sons of
Islam
needs to be investigated by the Muslim world. As in Iraq, the U.S. air
force
has shown its taste for terrorism against totally defenseless targets.
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Even the hardened representative of the International Red Cross was
sickened
by the carnage of prisoners of war murdered by the most sophistcated
jet
aircraft.
Here we have a gift from Bush for the Muslim world in the blessed month
of
Ramadan: 622 Muslims devoted to the cause of Allah, reciters of the
Qur'an,
who left their homes, families, loved ones, not to fight America but to
support the affirmation of Islam in one little country, slaughtered in
cold
blood by the most organized killing machine in the world.
{It appears that most of the Muslims killed were from Pakistan,
Bangladesh,
Chechnya, Egypt and Somalia with a few from Jordan and other
countries.}
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Shaikh Namahgani, leader of the Islamic movement in Uzbekistan, was
killed in
a U.S. bombing raid in Mazare Sharif. It's not clear if he was killed
in the
prison compound or in a separate incident. Readers who have the
information
are urged to share it.
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2001-11-29 Thu 12:15ct