They concluded that the Pakistani, believed to have been working for his country’s Inter-Service Intelligence directorate, had been killed.
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No evidence has surfaced publicly suggesting that a Pakistani died in the attack, and Doctors Without Borders, the worldwide organization that ran the hospital, says none of its staff was Pakistani. On Wednesday, the group said the commission had been “activated” and called it a first step toward an investigation.
According to the report, United States forces proceeded with the deadly attack because they believed the hospital was being used by a Pakistani operative to coordinate Taliban activity.
Pakistan on Friday rejected report by Associated Press news agency that a Pakistani operative was among those targeted in the USA bombing of a Kunduz hospital run by Doctors without Borders (MSF).
“What we need is the answer to the question that we are asking everybody…”
Theres somebody in a few part of the force that knows thats a prohibited target, Newton said. Or, two, there was an exception.
MSF also cried foul on Thursday after members of the U.S.-Afghan-NATO investigative team entered the hospital site in a tank, saying in a statement that the investigators’ “unannounced and forced entry damaged property, destroyed potential evidence and caused stress and fear”. Campbell suggested last week that Afghan forces had asked for the strike, a disturbing allegation given previous evidence of Afghanistan mistreating Doctors Without Borders.
“We are not pressuring them, but we are inviting them” to accept, he said, before adding: “It would be fairly easy for the U.S.to say, “We are the good guys, and we authorize this impartial, independent institution to conduct an inquiry”…” The USA and Afghan governments have launched three separate investigations.
“We are aware of the reports and are reviewing the incident”, the spokesperson said.
“There is nothing to indicate the people who made the ultimate decision to pull the trigger knew it was a hospital”, one of the officials said.
Maj. Roger M. Cabiness, a spokesman for the Department of Defense, declined to provide any information to BuzzFeed News on the bombing incident while it is under investigation.
Newton said the White House silence on the issue of whether the attack could constitute a war crime was appropriate. MSF, which has alleged that a war crime took place, is calling on the USA and Afghan governments to consent to an independent investigation, a request that has so far been rebuffed.
A U.S. military forward-operating base in Kunduz, Afghanistan.
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What actually happened on the ground? Thats the unanswered question.
