{"id":408,"date":"2004-03-22T03:57:16","date_gmt":"2004-03-22T07:57:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/wordpress\/?p=408"},"modified":"2004-03-22T03:57:16","modified_gmt":"2004-03-22T07:57:16","slug":"us-afghan-allies-committed-massacre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=408","title":{"rendered":"US Afghan allies committed massacre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>American experts find that Northern Alliance warlords slaughtered prisoners of war <\/b><\/p>\n<p>David Rose<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/observer.guardian.co.uk\/international\/story\/0,6903,1174554,00.html\">Sunday March 21, 2004<\/a><br \/>\nThe Observer <\/p>\n<div style=\"border: 1px dotted #550; font size: 12x; padding: 5px; margin:\n5px;\">Dramatic corroboration of the massacre of Afghan prisoners by the US-backed Northern Alliance at the start of the war in 2001 was last night provided by American pathologists commissioned to investigate the claims by the UN.<br \/>\nA vivid account of the slaughter was provided to The Observer last week by three Britons who were released from the US detention camp at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba more than two years after they were first seized in Afghanistan. They told how they narrowly escaped the massacre before being handed over to American forces and flown to Guantanamo Bay. <a href=\"http:\/\/observer.guardian.co.uk\/international\/story\/0,6903,1174554,00.html\">read more><\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.karmalised.com\/archives\/000410.html\">Related post<\/a><\/p>\n<p><u>Detainee abuse reported in Iraq:<\/u><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jurist.law.pitt.edu\/paperchase\/2004_03_20_indexarch.htm#107988622659521824\">Jurist&#8217;s Paper Chase<\/a> points to this DoD release:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.defenselink.mil\/news\/Mar2004\/n03202004_200403203.html\">Military Accuses Six of Abusing Detainees in Iraq<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American experts find that Northern Alliance warlords slaughtered prisoners of war David Rose Sunday March 21, 2004 The Observer Dramatic corroboration of the massacre of Afghan prisoners by the US-backed Northern Alliance at the start of the war in 2001 &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=408\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-6A","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}