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...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 of a German television...
...prisoner. But the conflagration that killed most of the prisoners began on Sunday morning, triggered - according to an emerging consensus among news reports - when prisoners set upon two CIA operatives sent to interrogate them in the hope of weeding out Al Qaeda members. One of these men, Johnny "Mike" Spann, was reportedly beaten to death; the other escaped to a far corner of the prison as a massive firefight broke out between Northern Alliance guards and prisoners who carried concealed weapons, or had disarmed the guards and broken into the fortress's armory...
...revolt was "proportionate" to the threat it represented. Such concerns may ring a little in a country whose wars have never been fought according to Geneva Convention rules. They may not be paid much heed in the U.S., either, where the major media focus has been on "Mike" Spann as a heroic first American combat casualty in the war against the perpetrators of the September 11 atrocity. But the British media and important sections of London's political establishment are saying that the "Afghan way of war" notwithstanding, the role of British and U.S. soldiers at Qalai Janghi demands...
...last two armed Taliban prisoners at Mazar-i-Sharif went out in a blaze of tank shells Tuesday, ending a bloody three-day rebellion that claimed hundreds of lives. At least one was an American; the CIA confirmed Wednesday a report by TIME's Alex Perry that Johnny "Mike" Spann, one of the agency's operatives, was killed early on in the fighting...
...Laden's al Qaeda network. On Sunday, the Taliban prisoners overpowered their guards and seized weapons from the fort's armory, taking over the southwest corner and exchanging fire with Northern Alliance soldiers both inside and outside the compound. Two Americans were trapped inside; one of them, CIA officer Spann, was quickly killed, witnesses told TIME's Perry...