Word: slaughters
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That was hardly an outcome the U.S. could like. The one thing Washington cared about was that al-Qaeda and non-Afghan fighters in Kunduz be captured or killed. Pakistan, on the other hand, wanted to prevent a slaughter of its nationals who had flocked to the Taliban banner; there were unconfirmed tales of Pakistani planes landing in the night to spirit disillusioned volunteers away...
Administration officials seemed surprisingly comfortable with surfing the instability. While European allies pleaded to rush in to prevent mayhem, the Bush Administration preferred to wait and see (irritating best pal Tony Blair, who wanted to deploy hundreds of British peacekeepers). "They're not devolving into slaughter," a senior State Department official said of the warlords. Washington saw only minimal intertribal fighting, so the smart play was to sit back and let Afghan leaders run things...
...battle for the Taliban 's last northern stronghold at Kunduz became a test case for the fate of other Taliban and foreign fighters: Were they to be killed, taken prisoner or allowed to go home? After a first cease-fire fell through and thousands of Taliban supporters faced slaughter, the Red Cross called for all parties to observe the Geneva Convention on prisoners of war. Tensions emerged within the Northern Alliance, as diplomats scurried to arrange multiparty talks in Bonn aimed at securing enough political stability to begin the country's rehabilitation. Pakistan severed its last diplomatic ties with...
...Britain, Australia: Alarm Over Prison Slaughter...
...Slaughter believes that this could generate the perception that the United States was acting as “judge, jury, and executioner,” thereby undermining the multilateral antiterrorism effort...