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US Said to Have Averted Inquiry Into ’01 Afghan Killings

Gen. Abdul Rashid Dostum while running for president of Afghanistan in 2004. (Paula Bronstein/Getty Images)

WASHINGTON - After a mass killing of hundreds, perhaps thousands, of Taliban prisoners of war by the forces of an American-backed warlord during the 2001 invasion of Afghanistan, Bush administration officials repeatedly discouraged efforts to investigate the episode, according to government officials and human rights organizations.