Issuing a new statement on the ongoing US efforts to block an international investigation into the recent US airstrike against the Doctors Without Borders (MSF) hospital near Kunduz, MSF confirmed that a US tank forced its way into the hospital yesterday totally without permission.
MSF closed the hospital after the US airstrike, which killed at least 22 civilians, and warned that the US tank, which officials claim was involved in the “official investigation” into the strike, did more damage to the already bombed hospital, and destroyed potential evidence of the war crime.
The statement went on to say that the investigation team had previously promised to “notify” MSF of any moves that involved the organization’s personnel or assets like the site, but that MSF only learned about the forced entry after the fact.
On Thursday, after several different claims of “mistaken” strikes, the Associated Press reported that the Pentagon knew the site was a hospital well before the bombing, and that the troops on the ground, who reportedly called in the strikes, were deployed there to surveil the hospital itself on suspicion a Pakistan ISI spy was within. MSF says none of their staff were Pakistani, and they had no information any of the patients were either.
The White House said earlier this week that President Obama opposes the MSF calls for an international investigation, saying he believes the internal probe conducted by the Pentagon will be sufficient. Since the Pentagon seems to be driving tanks through the evidence, that’s likely the only probe that will ever be able to happen at the site.
Of course the White House doesn't want an investigation except there is plenty of available evidence, the probability is that the C130 Spectre used DU ordinance, all that takes to find it is a Geiger counter and ONLY one organisation has that weaponry, that the tank was there to attempt to obliterate evidence is also proof of wrong doing!
The cover up is also a war crime under Geneva! For those that still come to the aid of the US and say Geneva doesn't apply, the US Supreme Court says other wise in Hamden V Rumsfeld when SCOTUS said that all persons had at least Civilian status in Afghanistan, however the new low of attacking a Hospital and then sending in a tank to attempt to cover it up suggests that quite the contrary to what the United States maintains, with its recent attempts at Providing material Support for Terrorists in Syria, as well as this atrocity of attacking a KNOWN Hospital, the United States of America is a State Sponsor of Terrorism and is now nothing but a ROGUE state that refuses to even obey its own domestic laws!
Oct. 3, 2015 AFGHANISTAN: Hospital bombing death toll at 16, 3 children THE ASSOCIATED PRESS KABUL, Afghanistan (AP)
The international charity Doctors Without Borders said at least 16 people including nine local staffers were killed when its clinic came under “sustained bombing” Saturday in the northern Afghan city of Kunduz, where Afghan officials said helicopter gunships had returned fire from Taliban fighters sheltering in the facility.
http://www.pe.com/articles/afghanistan-782423-dea…
"AP video of the compound showed burning buildings with firearms — automatic rifles and at least one Russian-made machine gun — on the windowsills pointed outward."
So, that one ISI spy who nobody knows anything about had been manning singée-handedly automatic rifles and at least one Russian-made machine gun (PUTIN, you bastard) which were then conveniently captured on video by AP? Great job, AP!
The point about evidence is legal nonsense. What evidence? Evidence of what? It is admitted that the US attacked the hospital. MSF's conduct makes me ever more suspicious.
The game has many levels. A lot like playing chess on three dimensional boards, and of corse the worsebmove US made was killing some white folk who have done no more than aid them in past.
A white life, especially of living angels, is far more of worth than tens of millions of brown or black of skin, and the cries of whilte bereaved and betrayed reach a higher planev of existence.
The fact US is an illegally attacking nation that is not there for humanitarian reasons does not enter the argument and while the good docs cry they dare not attack outright the US “RIGHT TO BE THERE”.
No it is far better and more profitable to play the US and economic NATO allies staged plays and keep their ability to be good Samaritans than chance being told to “Sit down and shut the f… up or we will make sure you never leave your old state funded positions again.”
Typically vague story. "US tank"? I doubt it was an Abrams tank, the big one. Probably some smaller tank looking vehicle with a small gun/machine gun in front. A "light tank" or armored personnel carrier.
Also, likely manned by Afghans. I haven't read of any US large tanks or crews serving in Afghanistan.
Of course we aren't told these details or who the crew was. In any event probably trying to destroy what evidence still exists. A major fiasco for the US/Afghan govt.