President Barack Obama has ordered his national security team to investigate reports that U.S. allies were responsible for the deaths of as many as 2,000 Taliban prisoners of war in Afghanistan.

Obama told CNN in an interview that aired Sunday that if the United States violated international norms, he wants to know about it. He also says he will make a decision how to proceed after he has all the facts.

Witnesses said the Taliban members surrendered to the U.S.-allied Northern Alliance in November 2001 and were placed in sealed cargo containers for a two-day trip. A State Department report said the prisoners were suffocated and then buried en masse, with bulldozers used to move the bodies.

Northern Alliance soldiers also have said they opened fire on the containers.

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