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Barbara Davidson
The Dallas Morning News

"Prisoners of War"  

 

 

There are no scales to weigh the misery of captured holy warriors stuck in one of Afghanistan's most isolated and desolate prisoner-of-war camps. As many as 1,000 Taliban and Pakistani prisoners died in freight containers during transport to this notorious Sheberghan prison. The prisoners appeals for water and fresh air were denied by their Northern Alliance captors who later buried them in a mass grave not far from the prison.
 
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