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KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - The U.N. confirmed yesterday that a mass grave in northern Afghanistan has been disturbed, raising the possibility that evidence supporting allegations of a massacre seven years ago might have been removed.The Dasht-e-Leili grave site holds as many as 2,000 bodies of Taliban prisoners who died in transit after surrendering during one of the regime’s last stands in November 2001, according to a Department of State report from 2002.McClatchy Newspapers first reported the tampering with the grave site on Thursday."We can confirm that the site at Dasht-e-Leili has been disturbed," said Dan McNorton, a spokesman for the U.N. mission in Afghanistan. He declined to say how or when the site had changed, saying that details would be available in an upcoming report.Boston-based Physicians for Human Rights, which discovered the Dasht-e-Leili site in 2002 and has performed autopsies on some of the bodies, said its researchers found two large pits at the site, both about 100 feet by 50 feet, in July that appeared to have been dug this year."These are real holes appearing to have been professionally dug, and signs of heavy machinery were observed," the group’s deputy director, Susannah Sirkin, said.Witnesses have claimed that forces with the U.S.-allied Northern Alliance placed the prisoners in sealed cargo containers over the two-day voyage to Sheberghan Prison, suffocating them and then burying them en masse using bulldozers to move the bodies, according to the state department report. Some Northern Alliance soldiers have said that some of their troops opened fire on the containers, killing those within.Representatives for northern Afghan strongman Abdul Rahim Dostum, the Northern Alliance general who is accused of overseeing the atrocities, could not be reached for comment. Dostum has previously denied the allegations.Physicians for Human Rights has repeatedly called for an investigation into Dasht-e-Leili and for protection of the area as possible evidence of a massacre.The U.N. said it does not have the authorization or the resources to protect all the mass grave sites in Afghanistan, a country still embroiled in conflict with Taliban fighters and other insurgent groups.Regional officials said it was unclear whether the site had truly been tampered with.http://www.columbiatribune.com/2008/Dec ... ews014.asp

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I would show a picture of the mass grave in a video but youtube would censor it.

Ry wrote:awesome animated gif with the shoe.

I would show a picture of the mass grave in a video but youtube would censor it.

haha thanks.

i know youtube is screwed up, they banned me several times in the past for my political videos.