Some in military suspended for deadly Afghan hospital attack

Yahoo News AP ^ | November 25, 2015 | ROBERT BURNS and KEN DILANIAN

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American soldiers and airmen who killed and wounded dozens of civilians in a strike on an Afghanistan hospital violated the rules of engagement and have been suspended as they await disciplinary action, U.S. military officials said Wednesday.

Briefing reporters on the results of two investigations, Gen. John Campbell, the U.S. commander in Afghanistan, described an egregious series of human and technical failures that led a U.S. warplane to mistakenly destroy a medical charity's hospital in northern Afghanistan last month. But Campbell and other officials would not say how many people had been removed from their jobs nor whether those high up the chain of command will be subject to discipline.

Officials said the crew of an AC-130 gunship had been dispatched to hit a Taliban command center in a different building, 450 yards away. However, hampered by problems with their targeting sensors, the crew relied on a physical description that led them to begin firing at a hospital run by the Doctors Without Borders medical charity, even though they saw no hostile activity there

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You know what it is that rolls downhill, always has.

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“You know what it is that rolls downhill, always has.”

Tell that to the late Muammar Gaddafi or Saddam Hussein.

I believe the end did not roll downhill to them, but hit them squarely in the face.