Possible US-led Airstrike Hits Doctors Without Borders Hospital

[Montjoy]

they are allied in that 'the enemy of my enemy Is my friend.'

Aryan Nations and the Black Panthers are both anti-government; do you think they are allies or friends?

 

[thepinkdragon]

I truly think that the intelligence on the ground actually worked for isis and deliberately gave up false information to get that hospital bombed. The cia will now have to waterboard their informants and find out how they messed up so badly. Jmo. Someone was tricked in to bombing that hospital.

Not ISIS, the Taliban. Weeks prior to the bombing of the hospital,the Taliban had taken control of the city. When the bombing occurred, Coalition forces had just regained control over most of the city but were still taking on direct fire within the vicinity of the hospital. It's a tragic event and it must be investigated and held accountable. MOO


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[bluesneakers]

U.S. general: Human error led to Doctors Without Borders strike

A U.S. airstrike that mistakenly killed 30 people at a Doctors Without Borders hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan, last month was, in part, the result of military personnel inadvertently aiming at the wrong target -- the hospital compound -- instead of a suspected nearby site, from which Taliban fighters were firing, the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan said Wednesday.

Campbell added that the confusion was exacerbated by the communication malfunctions the aircraft was already experiencing. It also occurred in a nighttime environment.

However, in the same briefing with reporters, Brig. Gen. Wilson Shoffner said that the investigation "found that some of the U.S. individuals" involved in the airstrike "did not follow the rules of engagement."

More, including video of the general, at link.

 

[bluesneakers]

MSF Delivers Petition Calling For Investigation Into Kunduz Hospital Attack

Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) today delivered a petition signed by more than 547,000 people to the White House, calling for President Obama to consent to an independent investigation of the deadly U.S. airstrikes on MSF's trauma hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan.

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The MSF petition calls for President Obama to consent to an investigation by the International Humanitarian Fact-Finding Commission (IHFFC), the one body established specifically to investigate potential violations of international humanitarian law under the Geneva Conventions.

"Only a full accounting by an independent, international body can restore our confidence in the commitments of the United States to uphold the laws of war, which prohibit such attacks on hospitals in the strongest terms," said Jason Cone, executive director of MSF-USA. "It is not sufficient for the perpetrators of attacks on medical facilities to be the only investigators."

 

[bluesneakers]

And...


Second medical facility bombed by U.S.-backed Saudi-led coalition in Yemen in just over a month
Three Doctors Without Borders medical facilities have been bombed by U.S.-backed forces in the past two months

DEC 3

Another Doctors Without Borders medical facility in Yemen was bombed yesterday — the second to be destroyed by the U.S.-backed Saudi-led coalition in just over a month.

At least nine people were injured, including two medical staff members. Two of the wounded have life-threatening injuries. The injured were transferred to two other hospitals being supported by Doctors Without Borders, which is known internationally as Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF).

As in previous cases of U.S.-backed forces bombing MSF facilities, the Saudi-led coalition was given the precise location of the al-Houban clinic. “The health structure’s GPS coordinates were regularly shared with the Saudi-led coalition, most recently on November 29, when we informed them about this specific activity in al-Houban,” noted Jerome Alin, MSF head of mission in Yemen. “There is no way that the Saudi-led coalition could have been unaware of the presence of MSF activities in this location.”

“The bombing of civilians and hospitals is a violation of international humanitarian law,” Alin emphasized. “Civilians seeking health care and medical facilities must be respected.”

- On October 3, the U.S. bombed yet another MSF hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan.

- On October 26, the U.S.-backed coalition bombed another MSF hospital in Yemen’s northern Sa’ada Governorate.

- On November 28, a fourth MSF medical facility was bombed, this time in Syria. A hospital in Homs was partially destroyed in a “double-tap” barrel bombing, a signature tactic of Syria’s Assad government.

 

[bluesneakers]

Aryan Nations and the Black Panthers are both anti-government; do you think they are allies or friends?

I'm sorry I had to fight in the middle of your Black Panther party.

 

[bluesneakers]

Death toll rises to 42 in Afghan hospital bombing

After two months of investigation, Medicins Sans Frontiers, also known as Doctors Without Borders, said it had now verified 42 deaths - 12 more than first reported.

In addition to 14 of its staff, MSF said 24 patients and four caretakers lost their lives when an American aircraft launched repeated airstrikes on its hospital at Kunduz early on October 3.
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It said additional human remains had been found in the hospital rubble since the airstrikes.

 

[EllieBee]

I'm sorry I had to fight in the middle of your Black Panther party.

Go back home to GREENBOW AL A BAMA!

 

[bluesneakers]

Go back home to GREENBOW AL A BAMA!

Thank you.

 

[FindHG]

The French have a saying: The more things change, the more they stay the same. War is and will always be hell.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/17/w...p-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0

 

[bluesneakers]

Pentagon Details Chain of Errors in Strike on Afghan Hospital

Dispatched to eliminate a compound swarming with Taliban fighters, the AC-130 gunship circled above the Afghan city, its crew struggling to figure out where exactly to direct the aircraft’s frightening array of weaponry.
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“Compound is currently under control of the TB, so those nine PAX are hostile,” the air controller said, using common military shorthand for “Taliban” and “people.”

The air controller was wrong.

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Pentagon disciplines 16 for deadly attack on Doctors Without Borders hospital in Afghanistan

The Pentagon has disciplined 16 service members for mistakes that led to the deadly airstrike on a Doctors Without Borders hospital in northern Afghanistan last fall, but no one will face criminal charges, The Times has learned.

One officer was suspended from command and ordered out of Afghanistan. The others were given lesser punishments: Six were sent to counseling, seven were issued letters of reprimand, and two were ordered to retraining courses.

The punishments follow a six-month Pentagon investigation of the disastrous Oct. 3 attack, which killed 42 medical workers, patients and other Afghans and wounded dozens more at the international humanitarian aid group's trauma center in Kunduz.

The 16 found at fault include a two-star general, the crew of an Air Force AC-130 gunship, and Army special forces personnel, according to U.S. officials who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the internal investigation.