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Kunduz Hospital Bombing Exposes U.S. Airstrike Hypocrisy
Is the U.S. still using propaganda claims that the Syrian government is willingly bombing hospitals? Or that it uses "dumb bombs" or "barrel bombs" that cause "collateral damage"? Will its proxies prepare more fake videos that allegedly show such bombings?
Well, it is time to end that nonsense because the hypocrisy is now too obvious:
Kabul, October 3, 2015: At 2:10 AM local time on Saturday October 3, the Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières’ (MSF) Trauma center in Kunduz was hit several times during sustained bombing and was very badly damaged.
Three MSF staff are confirmed dead and more than 30 are unaccounted for.
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Since fighting broke out on Monday, MSF has treated 394 wounded. When the aerial attack occurred this morning we had 105 patients and their caretakers in the hospital and over 80 MSF international and national staff present.
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MSF’s hospital is the only facility of its kind in the whole northeastern region of Afghanistan, providing free life- and limb-saving trauma care. MSF doctors treat all people according to their medical needs and do not make distinctions based on a patient’s ethnicity, religious beliefs or political affiliation.
MSF was hiding "terrorists" is the claim the officials make. People at the hospital were "individuals threatening the force" says the U.S. military.
A video of the aftermath shows that the MSF clinic is a single, large building with a large courtyard and walled off from the surrounding. This was no accidental hit by a "dumb bomb" but multiple willful targeting with "smart" bombs:
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All parties to conflict, including in Kabul & Washington, were clearly informed of precise GPS coordinates of our facilities in #Kunduz
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Precise location of our #Kunduz hospital communicated to all parties on multiple occasions over past months, including on 9/29
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Bombing continued for >30 minutes after American & Afghan military officials in Kabul & Washington first informed of proximity to hospital.
The total number of confirmed dead is currently creeping up with some saying that it will reach over 50.
Meanwhile the U.S. and the Saudis are tussling over who of them was responsible for designating a wedding in Yemen as an air attack target thereby killing over 130 people.
The U.S. and others (note: not Jordan(!) which seems to have left the anti-Syrian coalition) are whining that the Russian air force targets al-Qaeda CIA mercenaries and are begging to end that. Why exactly it should do so is not said.
Obama said yesterday that he will not get into a proxy fight with Russia over Syria. But the measures he announced, more weapons to the opposition, more bombing runs, point exactly into that direction. But with protection from the Russian air force and air defense the causing of "collateral damage" to the Syrian government, like to the MFS clinic, will be a bit more complicate.
@S Brennan@12
Got to ask you B;
How in the hell did you get all the way through the intertwined lies in the WaPoo article [last link]?
The lies were so thick and twisted in the WaPoo article, it overwhelmed me, I could not finish.
You need some Gore-Tex chest waders, or you may ask b which ones are the best. I am sure his waders cover up to the neck, as he is wading through thick piles of MSM shit day in and day out.
I rarely go through the links b posts to make his points, out of curiosity I went through all of them on this post today, and then I could understand your predicament after reading the WaPo lies.
But there are more.
Look at this “gem” from the AP link he provided, quotes in bold are mine,
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Confusion reigned in the wake of the deadly bombing Saturday of a hospital compound in the northern Afghan city of Kunduz run by the international medical charity Doctors Without Borders, which killed at least 19 people and wounded dozens more. It remains unclear exactly who bombed the hospital and the charity has demanded an investigation into the incident.
Doctors Without Borders said that “all indications” pointed to the international military coalition as responsible for the bombing and called for an independent investigation. The U.S. Defense Secretary, Ash Carter said an inquiry is underway into whether the carnage at the clinic was caused by an airstrike from an American fighter jet, while Afghan officials said helicopter gunships had returned fire from Taliban fighters hiding in the compound.[…]
[…]The charity did not say whether insurgents were present, and it was not immediately clear whether the staffers were killed by the Taliban, government or U.S. forces. The group said another 30 people were still missing after the incident.
AP video of the compound showed burning buildings with firearms — automatic rifles and at least one Russian-made machine gun — on the windowsills pointed outward.[…]
[…]It said that from 2:08 a.m. to 3:15 a.m. Saturday, the hospital was hit by bombs at 15-minute intervals. It quoted Kunduz-based doctor Heman Nagarathnam saying that planes repeatedly circled overhead during that time.[…]
[…]The confusion over the airstrike overshadowed reports of human rights abuses and widespread looting committed by the Taliban before they began their retreat, leaving behind a city without water or electricity, and rapidly dwindling food and medicine supplies as roads into Kunduz were mined by the insurgents to thwart the government assault.[…]
[…]The Ministry of Defense said “terrorists” armed with light and heavy weapons had entered the hospital compound and used “the buildings and the people inside as a shield” while firing on security forces. Brig. Gen. Dawlat Waziri, the ministry’s deputy spokesman, told The Associated Press that helicopter gunships fired on the militants, causing damage to the buildings.
Interior Ministry spokesman Sediq Sediqqi said 10 to 15 “terrorists” had been hiding in the hospital at the time of the strike. “All of the terrorists were killed but we also lost doctors,” he said. He said 80 staff members at the hospital, including 15 foreigners, had been taken to safety. He did not say what sort of strike had damaged the compound.
But Doctors Without Borders said “all indications currently point to the bombing being carried out by international coalition forces.”
The attack was a “grave violation of international humanitarian law,” it added. The MSF statement made no mention of whether Taliban fighters were present in the hospital.[…]
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“Confusion reigned…” at the beginning permeates the rest of the lies, and it is used again down below, “The confusion over the airstrike…”
Once “confusion reigns” the rest is easy, and Ash Carter comes into the confusion, clarifying there will be the customary inquiry “into whether the carnage at the clinic was caused by an airstrike from an American fighter jet, while Afghan officials said helicopter gunships had returned fire from Taliban fighters hiding in the compound.”
Furthermore, “The charity did not say whether insurgents were present, and it was not immediately clear whether the staffers were killed by the Taliban, government or U.S. forces. The group said another 30 people were still missing after the incident.”
More confusion.
Ah, and they found the reason for the bombing, a “Russian-made machine gun — on the windowsills pointed outward.” Those pesky Russians move quickly.
And to top it all, the ultimate hypocrisy and lie, “All of the terrorists were killed but we also lost doctors.” We? The royal we? The doctors were not “theirs,” they were not government-affiliated.
Yes, S. Brennan, now I completely understand your feelings. One needs an airsickness bag to read the MSM lies nowadays.
Posted by: Lone Wolf | Oct 3 2015 23:37 utc | 52
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