| The international Red Cross said it was investigating reports that dozens of Taliban captives suffocated in shipping containers while being taken to prison in northern Afghanistan. Shibarghan prison houses some 3,000 Taliban fighters, many of whom needed medical treatment, a Red Cross spokesperson said. ICRC workers had arranged for those needing surgery to be moved to a local hospital. General Jubarek, a northern alliance commander in Shibarghan, said that least 43 fighters had died of wounds or asphyxiation while being moved in shipping containers from Kunduz. We'll find an atrocity yet, by God! |