I'm listening to NPR's On Point this morning and they are having a discussion about US Special Forces obliterating a Doctor's Without Borders hospital in Kunduz. DWB have called this a war crime, and have claimed that no fighting was going on near the hospital, and should have drawn no fire.
There was just a guest on the show who was a Marine who served on a fire team in Afghanistan and Iraq, calling in these very kind of attacks carried out by an AC 130 Spectre gunship. He said it's improbable that the attack was begun not knowing what the target was, and from the tape he's seen of the damage it's clear the attack was prolonged. Meaning the gunship circled many teams evaluating the target, then opening up again.
This really leaves two options. The first I find highly unlikely, that the US decided to obliterate this hospital on the off chance they were treating Taliban fighters. Second, that the US was fed bad information by Afghan allies for unknown reasons. Fog of war, or purposeful misinformation.
This article is a link to a call for an independent investigation.
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-...dependent-inquiry-into-u-s-attack-on-hospital
There was just a guest on the show who was a Marine who served on a fire team in Afghanistan and Iraq, calling in these very kind of attacks carried out by an AC 130 Spectre gunship. He said it's improbable that the attack was begun not knowing what the target was, and from the tape he's seen of the damage it's clear the attack was prolonged. Meaning the gunship circled many teams evaluating the target, then opening up again.
This really leaves two options. The first I find highly unlikely, that the US decided to obliterate this hospital on the off chance they were treating Taliban fighters. Second, that the US was fed bad information by Afghan allies for unknown reasons. Fog of war, or purposeful misinformation.
This article is a link to a call for an independent investigation.
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-...dependent-inquiry-into-u-s-attack-on-hospital
