Obama orders investigation into alleged Afghanistan massacre that Bush administration 'tried to cover up'

President Obama has ordered an investigation into an alleged massacre in Afghanistan amid claims that the Bush White House tried to cover up the atrocity.

Up to 2,000 Taliban fighters were reportedly killed after they surrendered to the US-backed warlord General Abdul Rashid Dostum and his Northern Alliance troops in the early days of the Afghan War in 2001.

Although allegations first surfaced in 2002 that prisoners were deliberately left to suffocate in overcrowded containers or shot dead through the walls, the Bush administration rebuffed demands for an inquiry. More...

Don't miss:

1. Obama, like Bush, blocks Afghan massacre inquiry...
2. British soldier's torture video...
3. Afghanistan: 'It's a war we just can't win...
4. Afghans riot over American air-strike atrocity which killed 147 people...