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...SUNDAY MORNING The next morning, two Americans went to meet the prisoners at Qala-i-Jangi. Their mission at the fortress: to identify any members of al-Qaeda among the prisoners. But the Americans didn't conduct the interviews one by one?another mistake. Instead, at 11:15 a.m., the pair?Johnny Micheal Spann, 32, one of the CIA agents who had been active in Afghanistan since the war's beginning, the other identified by colleagues only as "Dave"?were taken to an open area outside the cells and a group of prisoners brought to meet them. According to members...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inside the Battle at Qala-i-Jangi | 12/3/2001 | See Source »

...Sunday Morning The next morning, two Americans went to meet the prisoners at Qala-i-Jangi. Their mission at the fortress: to identify any members of al-Qaeda among the prisoners. But the Americans didn't conduct the interviews one by one--another mistake. Instead, at 11:15 a.m., the pair--Johnny Micheal Spann, 32, one of the CIA agents who had been active in Afghanistan since the war's beginning, the other identified by colleagues only as "Dave"--were taken to an open area outside the cells and a group of prisoners brought to meet them. According to members...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inside the Battle at Qala-I-Jangi | 12/1/2001 | See Source »

...some witnesses believe was meant as a kind of coup de grace, injured only one person. But the first two had a huge toll, at least eight dead and 180 injured. On Thursday, another bomb attack had killed three people. The Israeli Minister of Defense announced that he will conduct a meeting with the heads of army and security forces to decide how the country will respond to the latest suicide attacks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Series of Suicide Attacks Rocks Israel | 12/1/2001 | See Source »

...circumstances, many of the prisoners were trying to kill their captors. Human rights advocates responding to the events at Qalai Janghi also point to a 1977 protocol to the Geneva Convention prohibiting an "order that there shall be no survivors, to threaten an adversary therewith or to conduct hostilities on this basis." But what if the prisoners themselves had elected to fight to the death? That claim itself is worthy of examination, a Red Cross official suggested to a British newspaper: "How many of the prisoners were armed and how many had a real combat role?" he said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Afghan Prison Bloodbath Prompts Calls for Inquiry | 11/30/2001 | See Source »

...Northern Alliance spokesman said Thursday that his organization would allow Amnesty International to conduct an investigation, maintaining that prisoners were victim of their own extremism. But Amnesty responded that while it would be happy to send an observer, the responsibility for convening such an inquiry lay with the Northern Alliance, the U.S. and Britain. Which may mean it's unlikely to happen any time soon - because there's certainly not likely to be much pressure either in Washington or Kabul to account for the deaths of some 400 foreigners willing to fight to the death for Osama bin Laden...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Afghan Prison Bloodbath Prompts Calls for Inquiry | 11/30/2001 | See Source »

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