The Pentagon is promising an investigation today after it was revealed that an AC-130 warplane carried out sustained fire against a Doctors Without Borders-run hospital on the outskirts of the Taliban-held city of Kunduz, killing 22 including 12 staffers and three children.
The hospital was already overwhelmed by the huge number of casualties from the past week of fighting over Kunduz, which the Taliban seized Monday. Doctors Without Borders is demanding clarification on what happened, noting they contacted the US after the first strike near their hospital to warn them it was so close, and sustained attacks against the hospital continued for over 30 minutes after that.
The US Embassy in Kabul expressed “condolences” but did not apologize for the attack, while both the UN Mission to Afghanistan and the Red Cross condemned the strikes, saying it was unacceptable to undermine humanitarian organizations in the warzone.
Though Doctors Without Borders reported 22 dead and 37 injured as a preliminary toll, they added that 30 other people are unaccounted for, meaning the tolls will almost certainly rise in the hours to come.
This is not the first time the US has come under fire for its actions against hospitals in Afghanistan, though it is by far the biggest such incidents. Back in 2009 there were a pair of incidents, including one in which US ground troops attacked a hospital, forcing their way in, and tying up the staff before smashing up the place. That hospital was run by the charity group the Swedish Committee for Afghanistan.
the crazy taliban did not touch it, the child raping afghan forces did not touch it yet the us comes in and while knowing the hospitals exact coordinates( a hospital that has been recently covered in so many news report) bombs it. is there some classified battlefield terror doctrine requirement that the american military is fulfilling
One more reason why Putin and the Russians are needed to clean up the mess the U.S. has made in the Middle East. The. U.S. is the problem and will never be part of the solution.
Imagine if a hospital in the United States had been hit like this. The news would be bigger than a gay wedding cake or a school shooting.
Where is the main stream media?
Dining with Trump.
Sounds like a book Hunter Thompson would write.
Well, Hospitals don't shoot back.
Path of least resistance.
DId the US hire Israeli spotters?
No wait. There must be an angle to hang this onto Putin…
The Pentagon is promising an investigation
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I can already tell you what the results of their investigation into themselves will be. Just imagine if Putins Russia, or The Taliban, or Iran or Assad had done this, what would they be saying.
Sickening, really!!!
Yep, they are investigating don't you know. They will complete the investigation just after the last 50 investigations get completed on the other civilians slaughtered by NATO.
at least they didn't use evil barrel bombs!
That is what the Doctors get for trying to help out innocent war victims. Let that be a lesson to those who try to do that in a country that the U.S.A. psycho-oligarchy is trying to bomb back into chaos, anarchy, and beyond the stone age. Chilling, what the psycho-oligarchy will do.
So if I have this right, when my child is sick, the best course for me to take is to get into a big refugee horde and take the problem to Europe's doorstep because the real perp is on the other side of the ocean and I'd have to hijack a plane to get there.
I imagine the MSF doctors were treating everyone who came to them, whether or not associated with battlefield injuries. Now regular people have nowhere to go. If someone in our psychological warfare department of CIA or Pentagon thinks the people will blame the Taliban for their misfortune, we paying crack-smokers to do our thinking for us.
I am so falling out of love with my country. I fell out of love with Israel for the same thing: Official mayhem dressed up as legitimate "defense".
I wonder if this investigation will transpire soon ; or will it follow the investigation of the downing of the Malaysian Flight M-17, which seems to have gone down the "memory hole". But does it matter – we are the few, the vast majority keep chanting in a bovine drone, "Russians and Muslims, are bad – Americans and Israelis are good!"
It is "worth the price" after all.
If some one could refresh my now senior citizen memory, but back around 1988, when the USS VINCENZE (was it?) blew that Iranian passenger airliner around the Persian Gulf, killing all of the crew and something like 289 or so passengers, for that act of "heroism" (sarcasm here) wasn't the Captain awarded the US Legion of Merit for those murders/whoops-that "accident"/error ???
So, we now have a USAF AC-130, bombing a recognized hospital, location/GPS coordinates given to US/NATO etc, plus gunning down staff and patients as well as burning children to death…WOW! The gunner will probably receive the AIR FORCE CROSS and all the other crew members the DISTINGUISHED FLYING CROSS and a real HEROS WELCOME when get back to Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave!
Obama and the other criminal thugs involved in this need to be prosecuted for war crimes. Civilization cannot survive if murderous lawlessness such as this is left unchecked.