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Archive Home > 2009 > July > 12 > U.S. officials: No grounds for war crimes trial over POWs

U.S. officials: No grounds for war crimes trial over POWs

By The Associated Press / The Bulletin
July 12, 2009

Obama administration officials said Friday they had no grounds to investigate the 2001 deaths of Taliban prisoners of war who human rights groups allege were killed by U.S.-backed forces.

The mass deaths were brought up anew Friday in a report by The New York Times. It quoted government and....

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