Officials cite U.S. inaction after Taliban POW deaths

Bush officials accused of discouraging probe into slayings by warlord on the CIA’s payroll

By James Risen / The Bulletin
July 11, 2009

WASHINGTON — After a mass killing of hundreds, perhaps thousands, of Taliban prisoners of war by the forces of a U.S.-backed warlord during the 2001 invasion of Afghanistan, Bush administration officials repeatedly discouraged efforts to investigate the episode, according to government....

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