OT: Captured Troops

[PsychoTechFreak]

Originally posted by Phoenix-D:

And in the WTF catagory..

What the f.. does this abbrev. mean?

EDIT:
"against insults and public curiosity"

To me that sounds more like don't be sticking them in the stockades for people to laugh at, not a one minute clip of random soldiers being led away

Well, it is a matter of interpretation, but of course, what we have seen from Al-jazeera TV and their question/answer games has been another story.

[tesco samoa]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/st...921192,00.html

an interesting article about the prisoners and the Taliban prisoners...

[dogscoff]

Interesting Tesco? Horrific more like. I know not everyone reads every link posted in these threads, but here are some highlights:

On November 21 2001, around 8,000 Taliban soldiers and Pashtun civilians surrendered at Konduz to the Northern Alliance commander, General Abdul Rashid Dostum ... The doors were sealed and the lorries were left to stand in the sun for several days ... The prisoners, many of whom were dying of thirst and asphyxiation, started banging on the sides of the trucks. Dostum's men stopped the convoy and machine-gunned the containers. When they arrived at Sheberghan, most of the captives were dead ... The US special forces running the prison watched the bodies being unloaded. They instructed Dostum's men to "get rid of them before satellite pictures can be taken" ... In the presence of up to 40 US special forces, the living and the dead were dumped into ditches. Anyone who moved was shot ... The German newspaper Die Zeit investigated the claims and concluded that: "No one doubted that the Americans had taken part. Even at higher levels there are no doubts on this issue." ... Donald Rumsfeld's department, assisted by a pliant media, has done all it can to suppress Jamie Doran's film, while General Dostum has begun to assassinate his witnesses.

I thought Guantanamo Bay was bad but this is fkn barbaric.

[Phoenix-D]

"What the f.. does this abbrev. mean?"

Exactly what you just said..

Phoenix-D

[PsychoTechFreak]

Public curiosity... Isn't it the same with court procedures with no cameras allowed? I tend to think so.

[phaet2112]

But the judge can allow footage of the defendant and prosecutor if they desire. The jury must always remain unknown, though, to prevent undue influence.

[Mephisto]

Look were Psycho lives. He is from Germany and here you cannot film anyone inside of a court room. No, never, anyone.