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Doctors Without Borders: 19 dead in Afghan clinic airstrike
Yahoo News ^ | October 3, 2015 | LYNNE O'DONNELL

Posted on 10/03/2015 10:05:28 PM PDT by Navy Patriot

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Confusion reigned in the wake of the deadly bombing Saturday of a hospital compound in the northern Afghan city of Kunduz that killed at least 19 people and wounded dozens more. It remains unclear exactly who bombed the hospital run by Doctors Without Borders and the international medical charity has demanded an investigation into the incident.

Doctors Without Borders said that "all indications" pointed to the international military coalition as responsible for the bombing and called for an independent investigation. U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter said an inquiry was underway into whether the carnage at the clinic was caused by an airstrike from an American fighter jet, while Afghan officials said helicopter gunships had returned fire from Taliban fighters hiding in the compound.

Afghan forces backed by U.S. airstrikes have been battling the Taliban street-by-street in Kunduz since Thursday to dislodge insurgents who seized the strategic city three days earlier in their biggest foray into a major urban area since the U.S.-led invasion of 2001. The insurgents have had the city encircled for months, and overran it in a surprise assault that embarrassed the U.S.-backed Afghan government and called into question the competence of the U.S.-funded Afghan armed forces.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bombs; docswithoutborders; doctorswoborders; doctorswoutborders; doctorswthtborders; dwb; hospital; moreoldnews; msf; obama; oops; taliban
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To: luvbach1

That’s exactly what happened.

Doctors still alive should think about getting out while they can.


41 posted on 10/03/2015 10:51:05 PM PDT by Rome2000 (SMASH THE CPUSA)
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To: luvbach1
...Taliban were hiding at or near the hospital compound and fired upon “coalition” forces. It’s what the cowardly Muzz have done all along, starting with the experience in Iraq.

Highly likely there was small scale sniping an hit and run, however, the release of these type weapons considering collateral is almost never allowed.

This was deliberate, Obama has already ordered five times the drone strikes than did W, and killed far more "civilians", and the news media is for all purposes silent.

42 posted on 10/03/2015 10:54:07 PM PDT by Navy Patriot (America, a Rule of Mob nation)
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To: Navy Patriot
Can you say "fog of war"? It will probably turn out to be bad intell or a pilot mistake. So what? While I'm sorry for so many peaceful Doctors losing their lives, sh*t happens when fighting.

Also, I'm sick of our restrictive Rules of Engagement (ROE) and get physically sick at the loss of American lives and limbs for Iraq and Aftganiscrap. They are both turning out to be another Viet-Nam that our Fedgov has no intention of winning any longer due to PC/World Opinion.

Personally, I'm somewhat okay with Russia kicking the crap out of everyone. While I don't support Putin propping up the tyrant Assad, I'm kinda glad to see someone making mince meat out of all the muslime factions in Syria.

I also think it's time that Western civilization went Dresden, Hamburg, and Tokyo on Islamists - PC and collateral damage be damned. This is about the survival of the West, which has been the most beneficial to mankind of any civilization in history. But no, the PC Merkels and such cry for the poor Syrians who are bringing in their 3rd world Islamic cult with them. I wouldn't cry one tear if all muslims disappeared tomorrow. It would be a better world.

Hope Israel has a strategic plan. They are freedom's last hope.

43 posted on 10/03/2015 10:58:01 PM PDT by A Navy Vet (An Oath is Forever)
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To: Vision Thing
How independent is Doctors Without Borders?

They are good Commie One Worlders, but then, so is obama.

They are warm, fuzzy humanists who love all humans, unless you are unborn.

It seems like it makes no sense, but you just need to remember, all Socialists will always fight to the death to determine which Socialist gets to run the whole show and take home all the loot.

Some Socialists are proactive and act on who they think MAY become more powerful than they can.

Me, I enjoy it when they kill one another.

44 posted on 10/03/2015 11:04:58 PM PDT by Navy Patriot (America, a Rule of Mob nation)
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To: Navy Patriot
They are good Commie One Worlders, but then, so is obama.

Maybe so, but at least they put their money where their mouths are.

45 posted on 10/03/2015 11:05:56 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: dfwgator

I said they were “good”, not that they were smart.


46 posted on 10/03/2015 11:12:47 PM PDT by Navy Patriot (America, a Rule of Mob nation)
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To: Gene Eric

On the BBC World Service now, no mention of the Doctors Without Borders incident.

They’ve just done a big propaganda piece on how great Uber the taxi people are.

Now they’re on about “what is Putin up to in Syria”. Talking to some propaganda man who has actually just said:

“This is classic Putin, cause the chaos and then jump in and say that he can clean up the chaos”

WTF? So Putin caused the mayhem in Syria? Putin created ISIS?

This is the top level propaganda from the BBC now.

Our idiot Defence Secretary Michael Fallon has said that only 1 in 20 Russian airstrikes are aimed at ISIS. Really? Exactly how does this moron know that?

BBC whore Nuala McGovern says “does Putin have any idea of what his airstrikes are hitting?”

Can you BELIEVE this crap? Nuala McGovern was on yesterday talking this bulls-it, her and Lawrence Polland are two of the worst BBC mediawhores.


47 posted on 10/03/2015 11:14:27 PM PDT by Lucy Hamilton (Lucy from Occupied Europa)
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To: Fai Mao

Totally bizarre.


48 posted on 10/03/2015 11:15:47 PM PDT by Lucy Hamilton (Lucy from Occupied Europa)
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To: Lucy Hamilton

>> Can you BELIEVE this crap?

Yes. BBC is no different than the US MSM.


49 posted on 10/03/2015 11:19:09 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: Navy Patriot

I saw on the news Saturday that the Taliban wounded were being treated in the building. The fighting Taliban were sheltering there and firing on unarmored UN-US troops, so air strikes were called in. ....No sympathy from me.


50 posted on 10/03/2015 11:19:29 PM PDT by octex
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To: Gene Eric

The BBC used to be respected worldwide. The BBC used to stand for genuine reporting, propaganda-free and used to have integrity.

Now it’s no different than some fourth-rate tabloid crap mixed in with the sort of propaganda that Joseph Goebbels would be jealous of.


51 posted on 10/03/2015 11:24:06 PM PDT by Lucy Hamilton (Lucy from Occupied Europa)
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To: Navy Patriot

As I say, our medias have become identical.


52 posted on 10/03/2015 11:25:26 PM PDT by Lucy Hamilton (Lucy from Occupied Europa)
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To: cloudmountain

They are a land-locked country with NOTHING, absolutely nothing.
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Except enormous poppy fields that both Bush and Obama refused to burn to the ground to shut off the revenue.


53 posted on 10/03/2015 11:26:26 PM PDT by octex
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To: Sarah Barracuda

Makes one think if he’s not blackmailed the media, for them to have guzzled to such a degree on the Kool-Aid, to me is just astonishing.


54 posted on 10/03/2015 11:26:59 PM PDT by Lucy Hamilton (Lucy from Occupied Europa)
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To: Sarah Barracuda

Simply incredible.


55 posted on 10/03/2015 11:27:33 PM PDT by Lucy Hamilton (Lucy from Occupied Europa)
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To: JennysCool

Dont forget interviewing the victims family members..gotta have that along with the really sad music in the background..and it would be wall to wall coverage, with leftists on TV blasting Bush calling him a murderer and demanding he be put in prison for killing doctors


56 posted on 10/03/2015 11:28:41 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: Lucy Hamilton

How’s Sky? Do you have any other major news sources?


57 posted on 10/03/2015 11:30:33 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: Lucy Hamilton

The media adores Obama, that is why they worked so hard to get him elected, they were invested in his election because Obama was the most far left candidate they have ever seen, it was like seeing Mao come back to life..a half black Commie, a dream come true to the far left..they won’t let Obama get destroyed by anything if they covered Obama like they covered Bush is approval rating would be 10 percent


58 posted on 10/03/2015 11:36:07 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: Fai Mao

and the Chinese embassy in Belgrade. ooops.


59 posted on 10/03/2015 11:41:12 PM PDT by RC one (....and subject to the jurisdiction thereof)
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To: Sarah Barracuda
"Obama was the most far left candidate they have ever seen, it was like seeing Mao come back to life..a half black Commie, a dream come true"

Obama, with a white mother and black father, is OUR FIRST BLACK PRESIDENT!!! The Oregon mass murderer, with a white father and black mother, is A WHITE SUPREMACIST!!! Such is the thinking of our media.
60 posted on 10/03/2015 11:46:38 PM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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