More Ethnic Cleansing

This disturbing companion story to the post below, came in from Eric Smith in Japan. Eric sums it up well, so I pass on his words verbatim.

UN: US Complicit in Afghan Slaughter -- 3,000 buried in mass desert graves

Today, American forensic scientists commissioned by the UN have corroborated the suppressed story of how Afghan warlords, under the direction of US Special Forces, murdered 3,000 POW who had been promised amnesty and were trapped in trucks in the desert.

"American special forces ordered the bodies buried before satellite photos could be taken," said an eyewitness.

Mass graves were unearthed in an area of recently disturbed desert soil outside the town of Shebargan, and scientists exhumed 15 bodies, a tiny sample, [they] said, of what is believed to be a very large total.

Watch the original movie here and then ask yourself seriously: "do the ends always justify the means?"

Now before you dismiss this as mere conspiracy theory, the UK Guardian published a corroborating story on Sunday.

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.

A 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.

Forensic anthropologist William Haglund further confirms the facts of the detainees allegations.

'I uncovered one small corner, exposing 15 remains which were quite complete, and did autopsies on three. There were no signs of trauma and these were all young men. This is consistent with death by asphyxiation.

'I told Dostum's security chief that they had died from suffocation, and there was this big silence hanging over the desert.'

The details about elements of the Tipton Three's story assumed a new importance last week, after the Sun published claims by a US Embassy spokesman, Lee McClenny, that the three had trained at an al-Qaeda camp in 2000. They told The Observer last week that they had all confessed to this accusation only after months of solitary confinement and 200 separate interrogation sessions, only to have it finally disproved by MI5, which brought documents showing they had been in Britain at the time.

After making his claims in the Sun, McClenny refused to answer further questions from journalists, while Lt Col Leon Sumpter, the US spokesman at Guantanamo Bay, said any allegations concerning detainees were highly classified, even after their release: 'I don't know how the Embassy got this,' he said. 'It didn't come from us, and we knew nothing about it.' McClenny's letter was widely criticised as an attempt to nullify the Tipton men's stories of abuse at American hands.

If they all have such damning stories to tell, it's small wonder our government not only doesn't want to release these prisoners but isolates them from any meaningful public contact.