United States to make ‘condolence payments’ to Afghan hospital victims
It’s in the Pentagon’s own interest to cooperate with an outside investigation.
Meanwhile, the aid agency insisted that it had given Global Positioning System coordinates to the us military before and during the attack, which killed 22 and injured more, and called for an independent investigation into the incident. Despite allegations to the contrary, there is little reason to believe that the attack was other than a tragic mistake committed in the heat of battle, as the US government maintains, not a deliberate criminal act. However, it shouldn’t matter – United States rules of engagement rule out fighting in a protected civilian facility, such as the hospital. Because of the ongoing investigation, the defense official-and the Pentagon’s spokespeople-refused to comment on the details of what the recordings captured. “This was not just an attack on our hospital”. It termed the hospital as “collateral damage”. This amounts to an admission of a war crime… President Barack Obama apologized for the incident, …
He said he had ordered American forces in Afghanistan to be retrained on their use of force. The USA on-the-ground troops required in such strikes were as far as half a mile away, the defense official told The Daily Beast, which likely helped create confusion about what the US military was striking.
The group criticized “the inconsistencies in the US and Afghan accounts” of how a hospital whose location was known to combatants ended up as the target of a half-hour raid.
On Tuesday, Defense Secretary Ash Carter said the USA military deeply regretted the loss of life and was acknowledging its mistake and working to understand what went wrong.
A Taliban suicide auto bomber struck a North Atlantic Treaty Organisation convoy in central Kabul today, triggering a powerful explosion in an attack that comes two weeks after the resurgent militant group overran a key northern city. Even if this had been true it would not justify the attack. The directory of worldwide law and policy at the global Committee of the Red Cross also supported the MSF, claiming that the IHFFC investigation would complement those of the Afghans, North Atlantic Treaty Organisation and the US.
Earlier on Saturday, Afghan President Ashraf Ghani appointed a team of investigators to look into the air strike as well as the circumstances that led to the Taliban’s brief capture of Kunduz.