USS Clueless Stardate 20011125.1517

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Stardate 20011125.1517 (On Screen): Some of the prisoners taken from Kunduz were being held in a POW camp near Mazar-e Sharif. Hundreds of them have now been killed, many by US bombing deliberately targeted at the camp.

I see an anti-war meme coming: Expect the accusations of brutality and war crimes to begin any day now. So let's nip this one in the bud right now: the prisoners had broken into a weapons cache and were fighting. At that point they ceased to be prisoners and regained their status as enemy soldiers, and as such were a legitimate war target. Had they not tried to get arms and started to fight again, we would not have bombed them. (discuss)

Update 20011126: Well, that didn't take long.

Captured by MemoWeb from http://denbeste.nu/entries/00001454.shtml on 9/16/2004