{"id":13005,"date":"2015-10-04T10:06:27","date_gmt":"2015-10-04T15:06:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=13005"},"modified":"2015-10-04T10:10:22","modified_gmt":"2015-10-04T15:10:22","slug":"doctors-accuse-white-house-of-lying-to-justify-collateral-damage-in-kabul-hospital-bombing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=13005","title":{"rendered":"Doctors Accuse White House Of Lying To Justify “Collateral Damage” In Kabul Hospital Bombing"},"content":{"rendered":"

Doctors Accuse White House Of Lying To Justify “Collateral Damage” In Kabul Hospital Bombing<\/a><\/h3>\n

By way of\u00a0excuse\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>for what President Obama called “a tragic incident,” (and The UN called a ‘war crime’) US officials have claimed that the Taliban were fighting from within the Kabul hospital\u00a0(which was destroyed by a US air strike yesterday killing at least 19 including 3 children)<\/em><\/a>\u00a0using aid workers as “a human shield.” However, this justification for the ‘collateral damage’ has been\u00a0vehemently denied by Medecins Sans Frontier (MSF)<\/strong>\u00a0who have issued a\u00a0statement dismissing\u00a0<\/a>the US claims,\u00a0“t<\/em><\/strong>he gates of the hospital compound were closed all night so no one that is not staff, a patient or a caretaker was inside the hospital when the bombing happened…”<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0but, the US strike has done one thing, as one local health official concluded,\u00a0“this city is no longer for the living.”<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

In a statement, President Barack Obama offered condolences to the victims of what he called “the tragic incident” where\u00a0as we detailed previously,<\/a>\u00a0the aid group MSF has said an air strike, probably carried out by U.S.-led coalition forces,\u00a0killed 19 staff and patients on Saturday in a hospital it runs in Kunduz, leaving 37 wounded<\/strong>. The ‘reason’ offered by US officials,\u00a0as Reuters reports,<\/a><\/p>\n

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The U.S. military said it conducted an air strike “in the vicinity” of the hospital, as it targeted Taliban insurgents who were directly firing on U.S. military personnel.<\/strong><\/div>\n

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In Kabul, the\u00a0Afghan Ministry of Defense said Taliban fighters had attacked the hospital and were using the building “as a human shield”.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

But the medical aid group denied this.<\/strong><\/u><\/p>\n

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“The gates of the hospital compound were closed all night so no one that is not staff, a patient or a caretaker was inside the hospital when the bombing happened,”<\/strong>\u00a0Medecins Sans Frontieres said in a statement on Sunday.\u00a0 “In any case, bombing a fully functioning hospital can never be justified.”<\/strong><\/div>\n

Witnesses said patients were burned alive in the crowded hospital after the airstrike. Among the dead were three children being treated.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Doctors Accuse White House Of Lying To Justify “Collateral Damage” In Kabul Hospital Bombing By way of\u00a0excuse\u00a0for what President Obama called “a tragic incident,” (and The UN called a ‘war crime’) US officials have claimed that the Taliban were fighting from within the Kabul hospital\u00a0(which was destroyed by a US air strike yesterday killing at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[2487,9558,9583,4175,9413,9559,9555,584,4318],"class_list":["post-13005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-afghanistan","tag-collateral-damage","tag-hospital-bombing","tag-kabul","tag-kunduz","tag-medecins-sans-frontieres","tag-msf","tag-obama","tag-zerohedge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13005"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13006,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13005\/revisions\/13006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}