Irishman alleges U.S. war crimes
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An Irish documentary filmmaker told the European Parliament this week that U.S. troops were complicit in a massacre at Mazar-e-Sharif, Afghanistan. Jamie Doran said he filmed witnesses testifying that thousands of Taliban prisoners suffocated in the metal containers used to transport them to a prison camp last November, and that an American officer ordered the bodies dumped in the desert. One witness allegedly says that American Special Forces tortured prisoners. The Pentagon dismissed the story. An official told the London Guardian that the Army had already investigated the claims and found no
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