Pentagon spokesman Peter Cook said October 10, “One step the department can take is to make condolence payments to civilian non-combatants injured and the families of civilian non-combatants killed”.
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Acting governor of Kunduz province, Hamdullah Daneshi, also reported recapturing major parts of the provincial capital Kunduz city 250 km north of Kabul and government forces have reestablished law and order in a few 60 percent of the war-battered city. The White House said Monday that the us military is exceedingly careful about avoiding civilian casualties and expressed confidence that ongoing investigations will get to the bottom of what happened. I think it’s clear from the evidence that the…the United States probably targeted the hospital deliberately.
There were 22 medical staff and patients killed and 39 injured by an airstrike last Saturday that was called in by USA special operations troops to support Afghan troops that were taking fire from Taliban fighters. The answer routinely given by America’s political establishment, regarding both Afghanistan and Iraq, is that, right or wrong, we are now bear moral responsibility for the chaos in both countries, and need to “see it through” until the mission is completed.
Meanwhile, whistleblowing website WikiLeaks has offered a $50,000 reward for any footage or cockpit audio from the USA warplane that carried out the bombing, stressing that, “according to military procedure,” HD footage of the strike should have been retained.
The fact is, a hospital suffered a devastating attack. Our colleagues had to operate on each other.
The Pentagon, after a few initial confusion about what had occurred, acknowledged that the hospital was mistakenly struck and promised to investigate, which is the appropriate response.
A nurse who was in the hospital described a horrific scene, with intensive care patients “burning in their beds”.
“In this case, there was a mistake and it’s one that the US owns up to”, Earnest said. But the relief group has declined to provide details of exactly who it alerted.
“The Office of the Prosecutor has received over 240 communications concerning the situation in Iraq”. Hundreds of gunmen stormed the city at around 3 a.m. from several directions, officials said. “Then we heard this calling, ‘Anyone alive?”
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When he emerged into the rubble of the smoldering hospital, the doctor immediately saw the bodies of patients and colleagues. A few could not be saved.
