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Death Toll Rises in Doctors Without Borders Hospital Airstrike (Obama's fault)
ABC7.com (Chicago) ^ | 10/04/2015 | EMILY SHAPIRO

Posted on 10/04/2015 10:46:25 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

The death toll has climbed to 22 following an airstrike in Kunduz, Afghanistan, that struck a hospital run by Doctors Without Borders Saturday.

Ten of those killed were patients, including three children, according to Doctors Without Borders/Mdecins Sans Frontires (MSF). The other 12 were staff members, said MSF.

In a statement, the coalition in Afghanistan acknowledged that U.S. forces conducted an airstrike in Kunduz early Saturday at 2:15 a.m. local time "against insurgents who were directly firing upon U.S. service members advising and assisting Afghan Security Forces in the city of Kunduz. The strike was conducted in the vicinity of a Doctors Without Borders medical facility."


While the U.S. military has launched a formal investigation, MSF is demanding an independent investigation "under the clear presumption that a war crime has been committed."

(Excerpt) Read more at abc7chicago.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: afghanistan; docswithoutborders; doctorswoborders; doctorswoutborders; doctorswthtborders; dwb; kunduz; taliban
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To: muir_redwoods

In reality, a number of them weren’t all that innocent, and those that were, picked a bad place and time to be sick or injured.


41 posted on 10/04/2015 12:39:09 PM PDT by Calvin Locke
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Hanlon’s razor


42 posted on 10/04/2015 12:51:14 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...

Greenfield: It’s Time to Treat Doctors Without Borders as a Terrorist Organization
FrontPage | October 4, 2015 | Daniel Greenfield
Posted on 10/04/2015 12:17:43 PM PDT by Louis Foxwell
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/3344583/posts


43 posted on 10/04/2015 12:56:04 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (What do we want? REGIME CHANGE! When do we want it? NOW)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Doctors With Moral Relativism.

Or

Doctors With Situational Ethics.


44 posted on 10/04/2015 12:57:40 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: shalom aleichem

That’s area vacated by his beloved JV team.


45 posted on 10/04/2015 1:08:12 PM PDT by mcshot (We have but our word and honor - 0 has 0.)
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To: Norm Lenhart; Old Sarge; null and void; Velveeta; Myrddin; Califreak; Salvation; ...
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Check out # 35 , # 36 , # 43 .

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46 posted on 10/04/2015 2:46:28 PM PDT by LucyT
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

So why does that court martial for the pilot start?


47 posted on 10/04/2015 2:52:31 PM PDT by Duckdog (Just because your paranoid, doesn't mean people aren't out to get you.)
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To: Duckdog

That should be “when”


48 posted on 10/04/2015 2:53:34 PM PDT by Duckdog (Just because your paranoid, doesn't mean people aren't out to get you.)
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To: Zhang Fei

Step away from the keyboard until you are sober


49 posted on 10/04/2015 2:58:24 PM PDT by maine-iac7 (Christians are as Christians do. By their fruits...)
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To: ilovesarah2012

“So you think this was a good thing?”

These people aren’t neutral - they’re on the other side:

http://www.algemeiner.com/2015/09/27/doctors-without-borders-openly-supports-hamas-condemns-israel/


50 posted on 10/04/2015 5:59:26 PM PDT by Zhang Fei (Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world and that God will preserve it always.)
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To: maine-iac7

“Step away from the keyboard until you are sober”

These people aren’t neutral - they’re on the other side:

http://www.algemeiner.com/2015/09/27/doctors-without-borders-openly-supports-hamas-condemns-israel/

You might say that they are the “civilian” (and propaganda) wing of every anti-American terror organization around. This is just the tip of the iceberg. I’ve been peripherally aware of their BS for a while now. It’s not exactly heart-breaking that some of these people are finally paying a price for helping the Taliban.


51 posted on 10/04/2015 6:04:03 PM PDT by Zhang Fei (Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world and that God will preserve it always.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
Was listenting to NPR for a moment today during a commercial break in NFL when they started an interview with the Head of Doctors w/o Borders. So ... I listened to it all.

A direct question was posed: Were bad guys hiding in/shooting from/using as a human shield ... the hospital.

The smarmily worded answer (paraphrased from memory but accurate) ... "none of our people reported any hostile forces entering the hospital".

That's a Hilary Clintonian equivalent of : None of the emails were marked classified.

The only real answer to that question, if the bad guys weren't using it, is "no" ... not "nothing was reported."

I didn't know enough (nor do I now) to have completely called BS on the guy - but it sounded like TOTAL CRAP to me, especially with all this War Crimes war path stuff.

O should hang for it, but the DWB CEO's tone was ... well ... French.

Just saw Greenfield's article. That pretty much confirms what the internal BS meter was telling me during the interview. All positioning, all blame ... way too early to run around screaming 'war crime war crime'.

That's all just intuition ... I know nothing of the history of DWB.

And of course NPR through softball after softball after tee-up followed by another softball.

52 posted on 10/04/2015 7:20:07 PM PDT by tinyowl (penguin in transition and C. Edmond Wright thinks I am an idiot and a Trump sycophant)
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To: tinyowl

Am I the only one who thinks that everybody on NPR sound like they’re on Prozac.


53 posted on 10/04/2015 7:24:02 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Is the Pope Catholic?)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
They are great - they all talk like eachother ... it's one of those places where having a speech impediment or faking it makes you sound extra intelligent.

I like a lot of the interviews where they stutter their words in interview questions to sound like they are really interested or thinking of the question on the spot ... "and wh-wh-what were you .... whatwereyou thinking wh-when you first realized you were w-w-were a woman trapped in .. in a man's body?"

Two or three of them do it - they tend to copy Terry Gross because of her sucess ... and yeah they are all on prozac and benzos I suspect.

We have a couple real characters in Maine.

54 posted on 10/04/2015 8:27:05 PM PDT by tinyowl (penguin in transition and C. Edmond Wright thinks I am an idiot and a Trump sycophant)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Obama will now require that ALL air strikes in Afghanistan be politically correct, and the USA will now exit Afghanistan altogether.


55 posted on 10/05/2015 2:09:35 AM PDT by Candor7 (Obama fascism article:(http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html))
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To: null and void

You have a point there. I recall Bill Clinton bombing an aspirin factory on the day of the Lewinsky trial.


56 posted on 10/06/2015 11:17:54 AM PDT by CivilWarBrewing
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