US To Compensate Kunduz Hospital Bombing Victims

These are the same troops the USA military has spent billions to train and equip so that it can finally withdraw from America’s longest war. It’s in the Pentagon’s own interest to cooperate with an outside investigation.

This in turn raises the question of why these methods are classified to begin with.

Doctors Without Borders, which has closed the hospital it opened in 2011, is justified in calling for a full, independent and transparent investigation. The staff noted that the hospital was the only structure hit in the attack.

As the New York Times reported, the hospital’s exact location was known, with the Global Positioning System coordinates supplied by Doctors Without Borders. Gen. John F. Campbell, who leads the USA forces in Afghanistan, reportedly suspects that US troops failed to follow established protocol in approving and conducting the attack.

It is precisely because attacking hospitals in war zones is prohibited that we expected to be protected. Kunduz became the first major Afghan city to be retaken by the Taliban since the start of the war, and may be a sign of things to come if the Afghan War continues its present trajectory.

It added that US Forces-Afghanistan (USFOR-A) also has the authority to pay for repairs to the hospital. Such a committee is the best way the American people and global community can make informed decisions about the reforms needed to prevent this crime from recurring.

Ghani told them he had ordered Afghan security forces to ensure the protection of humanitarian organizations.

We can not rely on only internal military investigations by the United States, the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (Nato) and Afghan forces.

The White House has yet to complete investigation into the case, said Earnest.

“Meanwhile health facilities are routinely attacked in conflicts world-wide such as those in Syria, Iraq, Yemen and Afghanistan, resulting in the deaths of medical staff and patients alike”. The circumstances of the attack make the official U.S. view that it was a mistake hard to believe.

Scrambling to assist, American Special Operations forces advisers requested immediate close air support for the Afghan commandos. They denied that the Taliban were using the hospital as a base at the time or that there were any armed Taliban fighters in the hospital. “It can be liberally interpreted”. A pre-flight brief also should have noted areas that should not be struck, including religious sites, schools-and hospitals.