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“Humanitarian Lies”: Evidence Proves US Afghan Hospital Attack Was Deliberate![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() welve staff members and at least 10 patients, including three children, were killed, with a further two staff presumed dead Changing US explanations following the October 3 Kunduz hospital attack were all lies – willful deception, covering up a deliberate attack on a Doctors Without Borders (MSF) facility. ![]() Photo MSF. Fires burn in the MSF emergency trauma hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan, after it was hit and partially destroyed by missiles 03 October 2015. They’d been gathering intelligence on it for days – the strike authorized on the phony pretext of it being used by “a Pakistani operative…coordinat(ing) (with) Taliban activity,” said AP. US “special operations analysts had assembled a dossier that included maps with the hospital circled, along with indications that intelligence agencies were tracking the location of the Pakistani operative and activity reports based on overhead surveillance, according to a former intelligence official who is familiar with some of the documents describing the site.” Claiming the “intelligence suggested the hospital was being used as a Taliban command and control center and may have housed heavy weapons” was a complete fabrication. Nothing of the sort was there. It was solely a hospital, providing vital medical services for thousands of Afghan victims of US imperialism, now with nowhere to go because of Washington’s horrific war crime. US General John Campbell in charge of Afghan operations lied, calling the strike a mistake, changing previous phony explanations, stopping short of saying who authorized it. Pentagon spokesman Peter Cook compounded his Big Lie, claiming US forces “would never intentionally target a protected medical facility. We have confidence that the ongoing investigations into this tragic incident will uncover exactly what happened and why this hospital was mistakenly struck.” Ongoing US, NATO and Afghan investigations will all whitewash Washington’s willful war crime when released – exercises solely in coverup and denial of what’s obvious from what’s already known. MSF needs approval from US and puppet Afghan authorities to proceed with the independent investigation it demands – unwilling to accept the results of phony ones now being conducted. On October 15, it launched a petitions drive, urging worldwide support, saying: MSF “today launched a petition urging citizens to call on President Obama and the United States to consent to an independent investigation into the bombing of MSF’s trauma hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan, on October 3.” MSF called for an independent investigation by the International Humanitarian Fact-Finding Commission (IHFFC) into the repeated US airstrikes on the hospital… Read the petition. Add your name. Demand US war criminals be held accountable for 14 years of naked aggression against a nation threatening no one – the Kunduz hospital attack the latest example of their contempt for human life and welfare. ********************************************************************* And from http://www.msf.org/article/factsheet-kunduz-hospital-attack Factsheet: Kunduz Hospital Attack
http://www.msf.org/article/factsheet-kunduz-hospital-attack Join us in demanding an Independent Investigation MSF is pushing for a full, transparent, and independent investigation into this shocking event. Help us by sharing our campaign page http://www.msf.org/kunduz-independentinvestigation and banner, or even better, a photo of yourself holding our banner.
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Jump To Comment: 1Doctors Without Borders have released their internal report (attached) on Thursday about the October attack on its hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan. In it they report:
For more see http://www.msf.ie/kunduz-hospital-attack
From Medencins Sans Frontiers (i.e. Doctors without Borders)
It has been one month since our emergency trauma hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan, was repeatedly bombed by US forces.
At least thirty people lost their lives: 10 were our patients, three of them children, and 13 were MSF staff (1 MSF staff member and 2 patients are missing and presumed dead). The only specialist trauma centre in northeast Afghanistan has been destroyed, depriving tens of thousands lifesaving surgical care.
Read an Irish Times interview with Dr Declan Barry who was medical team leader at Kunduz hospital until September of this year
http://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/middle-east/are-we...95153
For details on the AC-130 attack plane see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_AC-130 The AC-130 is by far the deadliest airborne platform. It is slow moving but armed to the teeth with heavy calibre machine gun, radar, infra-red sensors.
The AC-130 is a heavily armed long-endurance aircraft carrying an array of anti-ground oriented weapons that are integrated with sophisticated sensors, navigation, and fire-control systems. It is capable of delivering precision firepower or area-saturation fire over a target area over a long period of time, at night or in adverse weather. The sensor suite consists of a television sensor, infrared sensor, and radar.
Bringing democracy to an Afghan hospital... The hospital in Kunduz a few days after US attack