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Interesting story in which their own internal review reveals that senior, high-value Taliban officials frequented the hospital. And Afghan forces wanted them so they got the US military to go through with the strike.
Nice to read another side to the story @ More on the Doctors Without Borders attack in Kunduz
If some cops killed hospital patients...libs would demand the chief be fired or resign.
If our planes bomb a hospital...and knew it...libs won't demand the Chief in Command be fired.
See how libs care about all life?
If some cops killed hospital patients...libs would demand the chief be fired or resign.
If our planes bomb a hospital...and knew it...libs won't demand the Chief in Command be fired.
See how libs care about all life?
Yes. That little attack is going to cost the taxpayers millions if not more. The taxpayers will have to pay off all the families of those we murdered.
Interesting story in which their own internal review reveals that senior, high-value Taliban officials frequented the hospital. And Afghan forces wanted them so they got the US military to go through with the strike.
Nice to read another side to the story @ More on the Doctors Without Borders attack in Kunduz
The Oct. 3 attack, condemned by the medical charity as a war crime, killed 30 people and wounded at least 37. The findings of a U.S. military investigation into the incident will be made public on Wednesday, the Pentagon said. "It's a combination of factors," the Times quoted an unnamed senior Defense Department official as saying, describing the findings in what it said was a 3,000-page investigative file.
Damaged buildings are seen at the MSF hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan October 16, 2015. The hour-long air raid on October 3, 2015 killed 22 people, including 12 MSF staff, and led to the closure of the Kunduz trauma hospital, depriving tens of thousands of Afghans of health.
Two other military officials said the Air Force AC130 gunship that attacked the hospital was intended to target a different compound several hundred feet (metres) away that was believed to be a Taliban base of operations, the paper reported.
The "crew had been unable to rely on the aircraft’s instruments to find the target. Instead, they relied on verbal descriptions of the location that were being relayed by troops on the ground, a mix of American and Afghan Special Forces," the Times said. President Barack Obama apologized for the bombing of the hospital. MSF, or Doctors Without Borders, has demanded an international humanitarian commission to investigate the attack.
Report says combination of errors led to U.S. bombing of MSF hospital: NYT
Calling the airstrike a “tragic mistake,” General Campbell read a statement announcing the findings of the investigation, which he said concluded that “avoidable human error” was to blame, compounded by technical, mechanical and procedural failures. He said another contributing factor was that the Special Forces members in Kunduz had been fighting continuously for days and were fatigued. The strike, which involved repeated attacks by a Special Operations AC-130 gunship early on Oct. 3, killed 30 people, mostly patients and Doctors Without Borders staff members, and gutted the main hospital building. The aid group said the attack continued for more than an hour despite repeated calls to the military by staff members, and despite the hospital’s coordinates having been repeatedly sent to the American command.
General Campbell and his staff did not say how many people were being disciplined, or how. But a senior United States military official, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said one of those punished was the Army Special Forces commander on the ground in Kunduz during the fighting. The official would not identify the commander by name but said the officer, a captain, was relieved of his command in Afghanistan on Wednesday morning. Kunduz, a provincial capital in northern Afghanistan, had been seized by the Taliban in the days before the airstrike. General Campbell said the gunship’s crew believed it was firing on a different building identified as a Taliban base in the city. He said that the aircraft’s targeting systems had failed to deliver accurate information and that email and other electronic systems aboard the aircraft, including a video feed that would normally have sent pictures to higher-level commanders in real time, had also failed during the operation.
American officials said that the Special Operations troops did not follow the rules of engagement and that the airstrike should not have taken place. After reading the statement, General Campbell left the briefing room, at his headquarters in Kabul, without taking questions. Following up, the spokesman for the American command, Brig. Gen. Wilson Shoffner, sought to deflect a reporter’s suggestion that responsibility might rest higher up the chain of command. He said the actions of the aircrew and the Special Operations forces “were not appropriate to the threat that they faced.” And he repeatedly said the service members involved had not followed correct procedures for airstrikes or choosing targets.
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Murdered?If some cops killed hospital patients...libs would demand the chief be fired or resign.
If our planes bomb a hospital...and knew it...libs won't demand the Chief in Command be fired.
See how libs care about all life?
Yes. That little attack is going to cost the taxpayers millions if not more. The taxpayers will have to pay off all the families of those we murdered.
For an hour and a half?Looks like the vector to the target was wrong...
Slaughtered, would be a better word for it.Murdered?
Are you crazy?
Slaughtered, would be a better word for it.Murdered?
Are you crazy?
They, unlike you, are truly Pro-Life. That is their side.Slaughtered, would be a better word for it.Murdered?
Are you crazy?
Maybe in the future they won't fraternize with the enemy.
You got to be really sick in the head to think its okay to bomb a hospital.Maybe in the future they won't fraternize with the enemy.
I didn't say it was "ok" I said they brought danger upon themselves.You got to be really sick in the head to think its okay to bomb a hospital.Maybe in the future they won't fraternize with the enemy.
I didn't say you said it. But you think it is okay. If you didn't, you wouldn't be blaming them for getting bombed.I didn't say it was "ok" I said they brought danger upon themselves.
"...have them do some..." sounds a lot more romantic than "...committing war crimes...".Military Times says a whole bunch of people are facing disciplinary action over this.
Usual Obozo shit. Have them do some and, when the shits hits the fan, duck responsibility and blame it on others.
