We have become the people our forebearers warned us about and fought to get rid of.

The Americans told the Sheberghan people to get rid of them before satellite pictures could be taken. In a coordinated operation, truck drivers reportedly had their vehicles commandeered by armed soldiers. One driver, who transported the sealed boxcars with prisoners inside, said they began to cry for air after about 20 minutes. Northern Alliance commanders "told us to stop the trucks, and we came down. After that, they shot into the containers. Blood came pouring out. They were screaming inside," he said.

Others spoke of American soldiers present during the execution of survivors. "Some of them were alive," said another truck driver recounting what happened when the container doors were unlocked at the mass grave site. "They were brought here and shot," in view of American forces, he alleged in a recorded interview. "Maybe 30 to 40" American soldiers were present, he claimed.


[link|http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/news/4799415.htm|US watches as Taliban is executed.]