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	Sheberghan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sheberghan became the capital of an independent Uzbek khanate that was allotted to Afghanistan by the 1873 Anglo-Russian border agreement.
		Sheberghan was the site of the Dasht-i-Leili massacre in December 2001 during the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan where between 250 and 3,000 (depending on sources) Taliban prisoners were shot and/or suffocated to death in metal truck containers, while being transferred by U.S. and Northern Alliance soldiers from Kunduz to Sheberghan prison.
		Sheberghan was the stronghold of Uzbek warlord General Abdul Rashid Dostum, who had been vying with his Tajik rival General Mohammed Atta for control of northern Afghanistan.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sheberghan (323 words)

	Sheberghan - Wikipedia
		Sheberghan war einst die Hauptstadt eines unabhängigen Usbekischen Khanats, das nach dem Anglo-Russischen Krieg durch die Grenzvereinbarungen von 1873 an Afghanistan abgetreten wurde.
		Sheberghan war Schauplatz des Dasht-i-Leili Massakers im Dezember 2001 während der US-Invasion Afghanistans, als zwischen 250 und 3.000 (variierend je nach Quelle) Taliban-Gefangene durch Erschießen oder durch Ersticken in LKW-Metallcontainern umkamen, während sie durch Truppen der USA und der Nordallianz von Kundus nach Sheberghan transportiert wurden.
		Die Sheberghan Ölraffinerie bearbeitet Rohöl für den Gebrauch in Heizkesseln in Kabul, Mazar-i-Sharif and Sheberghan
	de.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sheberghan (247 words)

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		Because most prisons such as Sheberghan are under militia control, the inmates are likely to be held without trial until their families can pay off militia leaders to win their freedom.
		Sheberghan is so remote that few of the prisoners' relatives can afford to pay for transportation to visit them.
		Sheberghan is home to one of Afghanistan's most powerful militia leaders, Gen. Rashid Dustum, who serves as deputy defense minister in the interim government.
	www.tga-panama.com /2002/040702_Sheberghan.htm (1687 words)

	[PRISONACT] Prisoners of war held in horrific conditions in Afghan jails
		During the recent release of Sheberghan prisoners, Associated Press reported that a "toll fee" of 30,000 Pakistani rupees per person was paid to the jailers.
		The conditions at Sheberghan directly contravene the Geneva Convention and the United Nations Standard Minimum Rules for the treatment of prisoners which require that they be treated humanely and provided with adequate food, shelter, hygiene and medical case.
		Sheberghan prison is just one of a number of sites in Afghanistan where prisoners of war are being held.
	www.prisonactivist.org /pipermail/prisonact-list/2002-May/005219.html (1671 words)

	AfghanPix.com :: SHEBERGHAN
		When the Taliban regime fell, international human rights and relief organizations sent their representatives to Afghanistan on fact-finding missions, which revealed life was not that easy for thousands of imprisoned Taliban fighters.
		One of the most notorious POW detention centers was located in the town of Sheberghan (Shebargan) in Jowzjan Province, 120 kilometers west of Mazar-e-Sharif.
		Conditions were appalling and the inmates dreamed of being taken to Cuba where the U.S. military were conducting their investigation at the Guantanamo Bay detention center.
	www.afghanpix.com /5.html (246 words)

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		SHEBERGHAN, Afghanistan - It is a small bullet hole, just one of millions that riddle walls and buildings across the country.
		In Sheberghan and Mazar-e Sharif, Gen. Dostum's portrait graces entrance archways of government buildings, schools, military installations and stores, similar to the way Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein uses his own ever-present portrait to remind his people exactly who is in charge.
		He operates his own prison in Sheberghan, where he is keeping nearly 3,000 prisoners of war captured in November when the Taliban government fell.
	www.tga-panama.com /2002/041202_Dostum.htm (1382 words)

	Boston.com / News / Boston Globe / Opinion / Letters / Rights violations at Sheberghan
		I visited Sheberghan prison in Afghanistan in January 2002 and reported on the deplorable conditions.
		Indeed, it is suspected that possibly thousands of the prisoners who did not survive the transport to the prison ended up in a mass grave.
		The Geneva Conventions are clear: Prisoners captured in multinational conflicts cannot be handed over to the national authority unless that authority is capable of fulfilling support obligations.
	www.boston.com /news/globe/editorial_opinion/letters/articles/2004/05/10/rights_violations_at_sheberghan (219 words)

	Sheberghan death convoy
		By the time the containers were opened two days later - at the end of the journey from Kunduz to Sheberghan - many were dead.
		But at least two of the prisoners said American special forces - deployed in the area last autumn to hunt for al-Qa'eda operatives - were present when the containers were loaded and, two days later, when the containers reached Sheberghan prison carrying their cargo of live and dead prisoners.
		Until the end of last year access to Sheberghan prison was controlled by two American special forces soldiers.
	zzpat.tripod.com /cvb/sheberghan_death_convoy.html (979 words)

	ETSS
		Limax is under contract to build a road between Sheberghan, the home of General Abdul Rashid Dostum, one of the top warlords of Afghanistan and a well-loved leader among the Uzbek population of the north, and Sar-i-Pul, an orchard community about 60 km to the south.
		The gas plant in Sheberghan was built by the Russians to process gas for export to Russia, up through Uzbekistan, and it had served that purpose for several years before the Russians were driven from Afghanistan, and all improvements on the plant ceased.
		He admitted as how gas was also being piped to homes in Mazar and Sheberghan without removal of the highly poisonous hydrogen sulfide, which is contained in the gas from about half of the wells in the area.
	www.etss.edu /GrizzleKCM16.shtml (2839 words)

	The Death Convoy of Afghanistan - Security Council - Global Policy Forum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Mohammed was the driver of the second truck in line, but he got down from his cab and walked into the prison courtyard as the doors of the lead truck were opened.
		Abdul's was one of the containers in the third convoy to Sheberghan: by the time they reached the prison, he says, only 20 to 30 in his container were alive.
		By the time they reached Sheberghan, the young man says, only about 40 in his container were still alive.
	www.globalpolicy.org /security/issues/afghan/2002/0826memo.htm (5432 words)

	The Death Convoy of Afghanistan
		Officials across the administration did not respond to repeated requests by NEWSWEEK for a detailed accounting of U.S. activities in the Konduz, Mazar-e Sharif and Sheberghan areas at the time in question, and Defense Department spokespersons have made statements that are false.
		The organization’s code of operating out of the public eye—a trade-off that allows them access to places no one else is allowed to go, and enables them to provide aid to people in the most difficult circumstances—inhibited its officials from going public with what they heard.
		The Taliban’s surrender of the northern towns was an extended process; and the first dribble of prisoners from Konduz—captured on its outskirts—began to arrive at Sheberghan on Nov.
	www.rawa.org /na-killings.htm (5476 words)

	Jamie Doran, Producer-Director of "Afghan Massacre: The Convoy of Death" - A BuzzFlash Interview
		And remember, some of them were sold to their respective security agencies, and Lord knows what happened to them, because these are not the kindest people in the world.
		They went transported in open-backed trucks and taken to Sheberghan where they were processed by the American forces on the ground, checking for identity, everything else.
		And thus, if America is trying Taliban prisoners for war crimes -– many of whom, incidentally, were taken from Sheberghan Prison for the great crime of speaking English -– then I think it’s going to be fascinating when further evidence comes out during the Guantanamo trials of war crimes committed by their own men.
	www.buzzflash.com /interviews/03/09/23_doran.html (5400 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The escort of these prisoners was made up Afghan soldiers, and several of them saw their comrades dying under the balls of the talibans.
		Their thirst for plane revenge in the air and they have very little sympathy at the place of the few thousands which are taken along to Sheberghan.
		Instead of aiming at the roof of the containers, the soldiers drew randomly, killing those which were close to the walls.
	www.chez.com /zoneluco/afghan.htm (962 words)

	Arrival in Sheberghan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Nate and I just arrived in Sheberghan after a dusty 2 hour taxi ride from Mazar I Sharif where we flew this morning after paying off all the many baggage handlers to let us through to the tarmac with our boxes and bags.
		The wind was pretty wild in Mazar and really kicking up the dust, so bad you couldn't really see too far in front of the car, but once we got to the greener part of the road where the poppies grow, it wasn't too bad.
		That part was built by the Russians and parallel to it is the gas pipe line the Russians had originally built from Sheberghan to Tashkent, but Dostum moved after they ran the Russians out.
	www.solaceinternational.org /journals/ss20032.htm (367 words)

	Prisoners of war held in horrific conditions in Afghan jails (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The PHR noted: “The commanding officer has submitted requests for further assistance and additional resources to the international community but reports that the response has been minimal.” The Kabul administration ignored the PHR’s report, as did American military authorities and aid organisations.
		Most of the prisoners at Sheberghan have been there since the collapse of the Taliban regime last November and December.
		While the media sought to portray them as hardened “Al Qaeda” or Taliban”; fighters, many were simply Afghan tribesmen and farmers or Pakistanis angered at US aggression in Afghanistan.
	www.wsws.org /articles/2002/may2002/afgh-m27.shtml (1704 words)

	Afghan warlord Dostam survives suicide attack, over 20 hurt - Region - Middle East Times
		SHEBERGHAN -- Afghan warlord Abdul Rashid Dostam narrowly escaped assassination when a suicide bomber blew himself up on Thursday, injuring at least 21 people including Dostam's brother.
		The attacker, with explosives strapped to his body, struck outside the Ghocha Park Mosque in the northern town of Sheberghan, where the strongman had been saying open-air prayers for the Eid Al Adha Muslim festival.
		Visitors were frisked by a contingent of more than 10 armed guards at the gate of Dostam's compound but the former general only had two guards at his side.
	www.metimes.com /storyview.php?StoryID=20050121-052336-6583r (660 words)

	Target Dostum: The Campaign Against Northern Alliance Warlords
		As you enter the dusty plains city of Sheberghan in northern Afghanistan you are greeted by what has to be one of the most striking billboards in all of Eurasia.
		Over 1,500 of these Pashtun southerners were held in Dostum’s prison in Sheberghan for several years and other high ranking Taliban leaders, including Mullah Faisal, were filtered by the Americans and flown to Guantanamo Bay, where they still remain.
		At that time Bashir Baygzad, the security chief for Sheberghan, announced that his interrogation of the would-be assassin revealed that dozens of other terrorists had been sent to the north from Kabul to carry out similar missions [3].
	www.jamestown.org /terrorism/news/article.php?articleid=2369813 (1801 words)

	Hundreds of Taliban likely to be released -DAWN - International; 22 January, 2004
		SHEBERGHAN, Jan 21: A judicial commission into the jailing of some 900 Taliban and al-Qaeda operatives held in an infamous northern prison for more than two years is expected to release its findings next week, an official said.
		Some 900 militants captured during the US-led invasion are still in jail in Sheberghan more than two years later.
		Two years ago there were some 3,500 prisoners in Sheberghan jail, but many of them have been released during national holidays at the behest of President Karzai.-AFP
	www.dawn.com /2004/01/22/int8.htm (248 words)

	[ www.azadiradio.org ]
		The attack occurred in Dostum's hometown of Sheberghan, the capital of Jowzjan Province, at the end of open-air prayers to mark the Muslim festival of Eid Al-Adha.
		In another twist, a Sheberghan security official involved in the investigation of the attempt on Dostum's life said that the plot was engineered by people inside Pakistan, Hindukosh News Agency reported on 23 January.
		The official, identified as Fayzollah, said on 22 January that a telephone number was found in the pocket of the suicide attacker.
	www.azadiradio.org /en/weeklyreport/2005/01/31.asp (3049 words)

	frontline: chasing the sleeper cell: counterterrorism tools: the mobbs declaration on hamdi \| PBS
		After a prison uprising, the Northern Alliance transferred Hamdi to a prison at Sheberghan, Afghanistan, which was also under the control of Northern Alliance forces.
		Based upon his interviews and in light of his association with the Taliban, Hamdi was considered by military forces to be an enemy combatant.
		At the Sheberghan prison, Hamdi was determined by the U.S. military screening team to meet the criteria for enemy combatants over whom the United States was taking control.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/sleeper/tools/mobbshamdi.html (686 words)

	Project Censored Media democracy in action
		By the time we arrived in Sheberghan, only 10 of us were alive." One Afghani truck driver, forced to drive the containers, says the prisoners began to beg for air.
		The soldier informed Doran, "The Americans told the Sheberghan people to get rid of them [the bodies] before satellite pictures could be taken." One witness told the London Guardian that an U.S. Special Forces vehicle was parked at the scene as bulldozers buried the dead.
		They looked into it and did not substantiate any knowledge, presence, or participation of U.S. service members." A U.S. Embassy spokesperson in Berlin also rejected the allegations made in the documentary saying, "The claims are completely false that American soldiers were involved in the torture, execution, and disappearance of Taliban prisoners.
	www.projectcensored.org /publications/2004/11.html (1068 words)

	IWPR: National police secure northern roads \| The Tharwa project (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		He said motorists were regularly charged illegal "road taxes" during the day - and ambushed and robbed by night - at checkpoints run by gunmen.
		Ghulam Rabani, a shopkeeper who also regularly travels on the Mazar to Sheberghan road, is also relieved at the new regime.
		National police are expected to take over the checkpoints on the 180-kilometre stretch from Sheberghan to Faryab this week, Maroof said.
	www.tharwaproject.com /node/394 (1185 words)

	Arzu Rugs : Hope By Design (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Upon completion in February 2006, the school will accommodate 350 students with plans to increase the number of 500 in the near future.
		Arzu has provided school supplies for all 420 students along with 200 sets of desks and chairs at a Sheberghan primary school.
		The Sheberghan School has been open northern Afghanistan since 2004.
	www.arzurugs.org /education.html (210 words)

	Buzzoplex™ Kabul trip
		Nate left in March 2003 to begin a project in Sheberghan.
		Mark "Freddy" Frederick and I followed two weeks later, with the rest of the team coming in May. With the Shebergan project progressing, the three of us went up to the Amu River to the village of Qarqin.
		First in an orphanage in Sheberghan then in a children safe house in Kabul.
	homepage.mac.com /buzzschwall/buzzoplex_apple/kabul.html (229 words)

	Further Evidence US Massacred Thousands Of Taliban Prisoners
		In a May 1 letter to the provisional Afghan president, Hamid Karzai, the PHR wrote: ìThe forensic team also found evidence of recently disposed human remains in two of the nine gravesites that were visited.
		En route, approximately half of the captives suffocated or were killed by shots fired by soldiers into the airtight containers.
		The assumption is that seven-and-a-half-thousand went from Qala-i-Janghi to Sheberghan, and the result of that transport was that, according to his words, "Just 3,015 are left.
	www.rense.com /general26/thouss.htm (1124 words)

	t r u t h o u t - NewsWeek \| The Death Convoy of Afghanistan
		The organization's code of operating out of the public eye--a trade-off that allows them access to places no one else is allowed to go, and enables them to provide aid to people in the most difficult circumstances--inhibited its officials from going public with what they heard.
		The Taliban's surrender of the northern towns was an extended process; and the first dribble of prisoners from Konduz--captured on its outskirts--began to arrive at Sheberghan on Nov. 22-23.
		In mid-January John Heffernan and Jennifer Leaning of the PHR met by chance in Kabul with two Red Cross officials--one a senior official based in ICRC headquarters in Geneva.
	www.truthout.org /docs_02/08.21A.death.convoy.p.htm (5093 words)

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