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It's so odd that I don't remember the incident back in 2002 as being described by the press as a massacre.
I remember the taliban prisoners dying in containers, but i don't remember anyone saying that their deaths were intentional.
We need an investigation.
What else don't we know?
My guess is that some of the worst we don't know yet. I remember the reports of such mass killings in the early months of the Afghanistan War, though I don't recall our lazy press describing them as massacres, either. They were written off as having been committed by the Northern Alliance. But the fact of it is that the Northern Alliance at that time was operating essentially at the direction of the US military, though not entirely; they did supposedly take Kabul before the Cheney administration wanted them to. A close look at what happened in those days would probably find some American officials or soldiers criminally implicated in some of those killings. The warning signals of serious misconduct toward prisoners that mushroomed into worldwide, systematic abuse, torture and murder of prisoners by the US under the last administration were there screaming at us in the early months of the Afghanistan War. But neither the media nor the Congress - and certainly not the Cheney-Bush administration - much cared. For the administration, the only problem was that such killings got the amount of publicity that they did. Which wasn't that much.
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