Comments on: Behind Bars

By: richardbrinton

richardbrinton — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 06:14:04 +0000

Whether or not they were wearing shoes is besides the point.
If they had feet, that proves they had the potential for maybe someday wearing shoes. And thus were valid targets…

(there seems to be no end to u.s. crimes against humanity).

By: greenharper

greenharper — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 04:11:57 +0000

Harvard has a lot of libraries. 80 at least, I believe. Proper reply: “WHICH library?”

By: mui1

mui1 — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 00:52:17 +0000

I think “bury it” is more what they have in mind.

By: selise

selise — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 00:42:53 +0000

or maybe “quickly” doesn’t mean what i think it does?

By: mui1

mui1 — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 00:39:26 +0000

But, but, I am American, and that’s how I was taught in grammar school. They tried to fix me in college, but I slip up sometimes. I use spellcheck to fix it when I’m writing formally, but others in my area make those same “mistakes,” so I am not the only one.

By: TheKenoshaKid

TheKenoshaKid — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 00:29:23 +0000

I was just making a funny.

PS Real Americans spell it “humor.”

By: mui1

mui1 — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 00:22:33 +0000

Oh c’mon. It’s just Hugh. We all have to humour each other.

By: TheKenoshaKid

TheKenoshaKid — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 00:21:29 +0000

New guy shows up at Harvard and goes up to the first person he sees: “Hey, where’s the library at?”

The Harvard guy looks him up and down and says “At Harvard, we do not end our sentences in a preposition!”

The new guy says, “OK, where’s the library at, asshole?”

By: mui1

mui1 — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 00:20:11 +0000

So I am thinking they’ll try to put it in the x-files?

By: selise

selise — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 00:16:42 +0000

“We are committed to get to the truth as quickly as possible”

it’s been almost 7 years since i first read reports of the mass graves and widespread prisoner abuse in sheberghan:

Dasht-e-Leili is allegedly the burial location of as many as 2,000 prisoners who surrendered to the Afghan Northern Alliance and to US Special Forces in November 2001 after the fall of the Afghan city of Kunduz.

from today’s update:

Posted on Monday, Dec 22, 2008 at 5:51 pm by Ben Greenberg
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Media Contact:
Jonathan Hutson
+1-857-919-5130(mobile)
jhutson [at] phrusa [dot] org
(Cambridge, MA) – Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) calls upon Afghan, UN, and NATO authorities to cease evading responsibility and to act immediately to secure the mass grave site at Dasht-e-Leili in northern Afghanistan. During the past 72 hours, PHR has sent separate letters demanding action to Afghan President Hamid Karzai and General David McKiernan, Commander of NATO forces in Afghanistan.

PHR has called repeatedly for the protection of the site and for security for witnesses since first discovering the mass grave in 2002. As PHR has done in more than a dozen communications since 2002, the Karzai and McKiernan letters have requested specific assurances that authorities would act. PHR has urged the Afghans to request NATO assistance in securing the Dasht-e-Leili grave, and has asked NATO step forward to provide security. To date, it appears that neither of these things has happened, and that each entity is waiting for someone else to make the first move.

PHR is concerned that the delay in action on all sides may be allowing for additional destruction of evidence and further endangerment of witnesses at the Dasht-e-Leili site.