Reply #11: I googled "Prisoners deaths in cargo"

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There's a Newsweek story

Newsweek Cover Special Report: 'The War Crimes of Afghanistan' America's Afghan Allies Asphyxiated Hundreds of Surrendering Taliban Prisoners En Route to Jail, Transporting Them in Sealed Cargo Containers; Bodies Buried in Mass Grave ---- Witnesses Say U.S
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www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/08-18-2002/0001785225&EDATE=

and found alot of info including a documentry:

http://www.freedomfiles.org/war/atrocity.htm

In "a US-orchestrated military operation" (6), the NA captured the Taliban stronghold of Mazar-i-Sharif. Ultimately, thousands of Taliban fighters surrendered to the NA in the nearby town of Kunduz and were taken prisoner.

Kunduz fell in November. In December, New York Times correspondent Carlotta Gall reports that "dozens...of prisoners asphyxiated in shipping containers used to transport them to prison" in Shibarghan, "a journey that took two or three days." (1)

Faced with the problem of moving thousands of "potentially dangerous" men, the NA "packed many of them into the sealed containers" which "line the roads of Afghanistan and are frequently used to hold and transport prisoners."