User talk:Geo Swan/Guantanamo/al Janki prison riot
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I renamed this article from "prison uprising" to "prison riot" because, after further reading, I have grave doubts that it really was an uprising.
Some captives describe being stripped naked, handcuffed, and made to sit for hours in an open field -- presumably as the rest of the captives were stripped and handcuffed, before the Northern Alliance guards opened fire on them.
Northern Alliance leader Hazrat Ali is accused of performing mass executions of captives in the fall of 2001. When one reads some of the captives' accounts of the riot it sounds like the riot was really an attempted mass execution that went wrong. What went wrong? Militiamen issued their captives broken weapons, which were then surrendered to the CIA, for an additional bounty. And the CIA paid the Northern Alliance a bounty for every captive who entered the prison.
Maybe the Northern Alliance underestimated the number of machine guns they would need to slaughter all the captives? Some were hit, and some escaped back into the dungeon.
How did the CIA agent who got killed die?
- Maybe he tried to stop the slaughter?
- Maybe the Northern Alliance forces were very undisciplined, had poor fire control, and he was caught in the crossfire?
- Maybe the fleeing captives ran into him, and tried to take him as a hostage?
So, how do I find out whatever official info about the riot has been made available to the public?
