Posted on 10/02/2015 11:44:07 PM PDT by tcrlaf
Three doctors of a Medicines Sans Frontiers (MSF) hospital were killed as an air strike targeted the MSF medical facility in Afghanistan's northern Kunduz city on Saturday, the MSF said in a statement.
"Three MSF staff are confirmed dead and more than 30 are unaccounted after (MSF) trauma center in Kunduz was hit at 2:10 a. m. local time on Saturday (2140 GMT Friday) several times during sustained bombing and was very badly damaged," the statement said.
The medical team was working around the clock to do everything possible for the safety of patients and hospital staff, the statement said.
"We are deeply shocked by the attack, the killing of our staff and patients and the heavy toll it has inflicted on healthcare in Kunduz," Bart Janssens, MSF Director of Operations, said in the statement.
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The doctors are there talking to the news media. Ask them.
No need to speculate.
“I wonder if they were giving aid and comfort to terrorists?”
The hospital was the only large hospital/trauma center in NE Afghanistan. Medicins sans frontieres is apolitical.
RIP.
Most likely ISIS used gear provided to "freedom fighters" or the Iraqi Army re-target the strike.
The fact that ISIS captured such gear has been published even if it was buried well off the front page. Both the Iraqi Army which abandoned or lost a ton of equipment as well as for the "good freedom fighters" not long before those "good freedom fighters" switched sides and joined with ISIS. There's no doubt ISIS has required equipment and expertise to divert an incoming weapon.
The Russians want ISIS dead and gone, not NATO/US forces becoming even less effective at hitting ISIS.
Everyone not drinking the Kool Aid can see that the US and NATO backing Muzzie scum all over the ME has disastrous results. No one needs to frame them for anything. They've done more than enough to make themselves look bad already.
Unfortunately people in this country have become so used to childish narcissists running the country that they believe any and all propaganda and fall in line blaming anyone but the Kiddies in charge when something goes wrong. Some folks have their heads so far up their exhaust port they even jump to conclusions like blaming the Russians for this sort of mistake even though the exact same sort of thing has happened in every conflict NATO/US forces have been involved in since Kosovo.
Any of this sort of mistake that happens isn't "spoofing", it's the usual blow-back from insane operations that support murderous Muzzie scum to further the economic ends of turds that support the likes of King Barry.
You make a good point that captured gear could also be used to re-target that airstrike.
Adds up, don’t it.
Being in the middle of a battle rarely works out well for non-combatants.
I was over there when the Chinese embassy was accidentally bombed actually.
Aha! The Taliban have their own synched laser designators!
( Courtesy of Obama,China or Putin.)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser_designator
They will be covering the obama families 2d vacation to martha’s vineyard this weekend, right?
Perfect weather for golf and surf’s up
Wasn’t our pentagon yesterday just regurgitating WH agitprop criticizing the Russians for causing casualties by using dumb bombs in Syria?
It would be very jihadi slamist to be using a humanitarian facility and civilians to shield its fighters often without the knowledge of the victims
We can expect a lot of this in Syria in the weeks ahead
I ask again, why are we there?
I ask again, why are we there?
The Muslim Brotherhood wants Assad out and Barry does whatever the Muslim Brotherhood wants. Period.
And dats da fact, Jack.
Probably. Doctors Without Morals helps anyone.
Of course, not all groups would have such equipment but you can bet that the more important to ISIS a given group is in an area the more likely they are to have the equipment and people to operate it.
The AF is expecting sitting ducks and the ducks aren't playing by AF rules.
I like the way you think.
“Medicins sans frontieres is apolitical.”
The question asked was if they were giving aid and comfort to terrorists. Not their political leanings.
Assuming you are right they are ‘apolitical’, which may or may not be true, that only means they do their job without regard to any other political or ideological factors.
The answer may well be yes, even if it was unknowingly so.
That’s quite a theory to say the least. Smart bombs are a little smarter than that if that’s what was used which no one knows at this point and to assume Russians are on the ground and can spoof GPS and redirect to civilian target is way the “f” off along with knowing the laser code of the weapon used to redirect if it was a laze type weapon.
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