With the official US narrative on their attack on the Doctors Without Borders hospital having changed several times, and the White House openly opposing calls for an independent investigation into the strike, the Associated Press in now reporting that the ground troops in the area, the ones who apparently called in the strike, knew it was a hospital.
Not only that, but the Pentagon had actually ordered the troops on the ground to conduct surveillance against the hospital, on suspicion that a Pakistan Inter-Services Intelligence spy was inside. Officials were even privately saying the attack on the protected hospital full of civilians was “justified” because of this, and that they believe one of the 22 slain civilians may well have been the Pakistani in question.
This dramatically undercuts US claims that the attack, likely a war crime, was “a mistake,” and President Obama’s “apology” to Doctors Without Borders, who say the new reports underscore the likelihood that the US deliberately targeted a hospital.
It also supports Doctors Without Borders’ assessment that there was no fighting anywhere near the hospital the night of the strike, suggesting the claim of a battle was a pretext for an American attack on a hospital, which was the goal in the first place.
Doctors Without Borders did, however, spurned the reports that a Pakistani ISI spy was present, saying none of the staff at the facility were Pakistani, and that they had no information that any of the patients were either.
There has been a U.S. policy of attacking the first response to a drone strike for many years. This is like a cynical progression of that policy.
Is the US at war with Pakistan?
Is anyone going to be held accountable? Or are you one of those who 'blames America first' if you demand responsibility and accountability.
No. Yes.
And why EXACTLY is the US suddenly so hot on killing ISI "spies" using non.targeted assassinations?
I though the Pakistani are our friends?
All of this smells like Hollywood logic. Get me Jason Bourne, stat!
Well we all know the old saying: "Keep throwing mud on the wall
hoping that something sticks."
A human life has no value to these liars and murderers whose
bottom line is making a profit off war and destruction. Killing to
these psychopaths is like taking a drink of water.
Not only that, but the Pentagon had actually ordered the troops on the ground to conduct surveillance against the hospital, on suspicion that a Pakistan Inter-Services Intelligence spy was inside.
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Why would we attack the ISI? We pay 1/3 of the ISI's budget.
From the LA Times:
CIA pays for support in Pakistan : It has spent millions funding the ISI spy agency, despite fears of corruption. But some say it is worth it.
November 15, 2009|Greg Miller
WASHINGTON — The CIA has funneled hundreds of millions of dollars to Pakistan's intelligence service since the Sept. 11 attacks, accounting for as much as one-third of the foreign spy agency's annual budget, current and former U.S. officials say
We now see terrorists everywhere and we need to wipe out terrorists so we can have peace. Anything we do to eradicate terrorism is not going to be questioned, generally. Extremism in the elimination of terrorists is considered a virtue. Who is able to hold the U.S. Military responsible? We only answer to ourselves. We only allow ourselves to investigate ourselves. If we get pushed though some high ranking person will declare "I take full responsibility," and everyone will be satisfied, and the person taking responsibility will then escape taking responsibility. It used to be in the old days a person would take responsibility for something that occurred in their organization by resigning, but now we are an Empire we do things the Empire way.
Agree, and add that if the US would pull completely out of the Middle East internal affairs, we would be indeed removing the largest terrorist problem.
If the hospital is not reopened soon, Empire USA will have succeeded in doing another massive corruption. For as it stands now, no hospital in a war zone will ever again give aid and comfort to an enemy of our Empire.
So, Doctors Without Borders should start begging for donations, for a new and bigger hospital, what a blow to the guts of our gutless Empire it would surely be
We don't even know that they were giving "aid and comfort" to an enemy do we? What we know is that everywhere in the whole world, humans get sick and doctors are needed to treat them. MSF operates that way, doesn't it? How can you claim to have a humanitarian vision if you don't take all suffering people into your facility? But they are thus not obligated to run a background check on each patient and if they don't measure up, they are kicked out.
I remember when my husband was a patient at Mass General Hospital for three weeks, that they were bringing in gunshot victims sometimes – anyone who fell in their area. I don't say all American hospitals are models of compassion but the general rule is you don't let gang members or drug overdose cases that have fallen in the street just die there. You take care even of them and attempt to save their lives, however you may judge them as worthless.
The Disguised Global Crony-Capitalist Empire is the problem
Essentially, this is the "human shield" argument used by Israel to justify targeting civilians: the hospital was providing cover for this Pakistani agent. The mere fact that MSF were unaware of his activities doesn't mean he wasn't there. And, of course, what the Pentagon knew isn't the point. The Pentagon didn't order the strike. According to the AP article, it's still unclear is whether the people who ordered strike knew. That will need to determined.
It could also have been a storage hold of deep-frozen Greys and human embryos injected with alien DNA that Fox Mulder was about to discover. Who knows. Better take off and nuke the site from orbit – it's the only way to be sure.
"The mere fact that MSF were unaware of his activities doesn't mean he wasn't there."
Yes, and if he was hiding in my basement, then my family and I would be a justifiable target? Yours too?
We're at war, we bomb hospitals that harbor the enemy. We would also bomb anyone who bombed one of our hospitals even if we were harboring the bomber's enemy. We also bomb anyone who bombs someone that we don't want them to bomb. We also allow proxy bombings and we bomb those who bomb our proxy bombers. We bomb citizens.