The Pentagon was investigating reports of the massacre...

The Pentagon was investigating reports of the massacre of about 160 unarmed Taliban prisoners by American and Pakistani-backed opposition forces.
The unarmed Taliban fighters were said to have been lined up and shot by Northern Alliance soldiers, having been captured after fighting for the strategic southern town of Takteh Pol, situated between the Pakistani border and the final remaining Taliban stronghold of Kandahar.
Those Taliban fighters who surrendered immediately were not killed. An unnamed commander with the forces of Gul Agha, a former mujahedin governor of Kandahar, said seven or eight US military personnel who were filming the battle for the town tried to prevent the executions but their requests were ignored.
"We tried our best to persuade [the Taliban] to surrender before we attacked. We asked them many times, quoted the Koran and even offered them money," the commander, who asked not be named, told Reuters. "But they replied with abuse so we had no choice. We executed around 160 Taliban that were captured. They were made to stand in a long line and five or six of our fighters used light machine-guns on them."
He said graves were dug and 10 to 12 bodies were buried in each of them.
The claims came after numerous other reports of summary executions of Taliban fighters by opposition forces in the past two weeks.
The New York-based Human Rights Watch said it seemed that the shootings represented a "serious war crime".