Posted on 10/03/2015 11:41:33 AM PDT by Altariel
KABUL – U.S. forces may have mistakenly bombed a hospital in northern Afghanistan on Saturday, killing at least 19 people, including three children, in an incident that will likely raise new questions about the scope of American involvement in the country’s 14-year war.
In a statement, Doctors Without Borders said an airstrike “partially destroyed” its trauma hospital in Kunduz, where the Afghan military has been trying to drive Taliban fighters from the city.
The airstrike killed at least 12 Doctors Without Borders staff members, the group said. Three children were also reportedly killed. At least 37 other people were seriously injured, including 19 staff members and 18 patients and caretakers. Officials warned the death toll could rise as dozens of people remain unaccounted for.
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The United Nations’ top human rights official also called for an independent investigation, while equating the airstrike on the hospital to a war crime.
“This event is utterly tragic, inexcusable, and possibly even criminal,” Zeid Ra’ad al-Hussein, the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, said in a statement.
“This deeply shocking event should be promptly, thoroughly and independently investigated and the results should be made public,” he said. “The seriousness of the incident is underlined by the fact that, if established as deliberate in a court of law, an airstrike on a hospital may amount to a war crime.”
Defense Secretary Ashton B. Carter issued a statement saying: “While we are still trying to determine exactly what happened, I want to extend my thoughts and prayers to everyone affected. A full investigation into the tragic incident is underway in coordination with the Afghan government.”
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Obama has been pushing women in combat, and gay leaders in the military.
Perhaps he should spend a little more time on target identification.
How could anyone blame 0bama when it is clearly Bush’s fault? /sarc
Well, since we seemed to be dropping weapons to the bad guys “by mistake” until Big Media stopped reporting it, who’s to say the Rainbow House didn’t provide the coordinates to get them/us mad enough to demand we leave Afghanistan, too, while the Fraud is still in power?
If Bush was president it would be Bush’s fault 24/7.
However, because we now have President Selfie-Stick, the buck stops somewhere else.
If found to be deliberate? Someone needs to point that little pig to the actions of Islamic fighters around the globe before he starts tossing stones and crying war crimes. Insurgents are never accountable. America always the bad guy.
The dead in a war zone are their own responsibility.
Yes, how dare the sick and wounded not pack themselves up and leave. Shame on them.
So, becausevpart A commits a crime Party B shouldn’t be held accountable?
“Perhaps he should spend a little more time on target identification.”
I thought Obama personally targeted each strike.
Obama, the same guy who says that we have no right to have a gun has no problem blowing up docs, perhaps we need to ban Obama from having a weapon
So, because party A commits a crime Party B shouldn’t be held accountable?
U.S. forces may have mistakenly bombed a hospital in northern Afghanistan on Saturday,....and what is the downside? We killed more muzzies? So what? A few stupid doctors died? They probably would get their heads cut of anyway. No problem then.
Hmmmm ..?? I thought I read somewhere that the Russians were focusing on Kunduz area .. so what are the chances it was not the USA who did this bombing ..??
Probably used “friendly” Afghans for getting target info.
Right, because all US pilots want to do is bomb hospitals so they can scratch that one off their bucket list.
Pi$$ off UN...why don't you take over in that $hit hole then?
Sadly
This appears to be fact
Someone got their target coordinates punched in wrong
But this was basically a modern Puff no?....called Spectre now
Doesn’t it shoot line of sight?
AC 130 circling shooting GE Gatling with big rounds and rockets and cannon even too
Nothing in that building survived
They simply shot the wrong target or got miscommunication
Terrible
And you were at Stalingrad no?
If so, he killed more innocent people today than the Umpqua killer did earlier this week.
If the media can blame it on Bush they will hype it. Otherwise they will drop it.
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