{"id":13117,"date":"2015-10-07T06:52:46","date_gmt":"2015-10-07T11:52:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=13117"},"modified":"2015-10-07T06:52:46","modified_gmt":"2015-10-07T11:52:46","slug":"u-s-bombing-of-a-doctors-without-borders-hospital-in-afghanistan-was-no-accident-it-was-the-target","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=13117","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Bombing of a Doctors Without Borders Hospital in Afghanistan Was No Accident \u2013 \u201cIt Was the Target\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"
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U.S. Bombing of a Doctors Without Borders Hospital in Afghanistan Was No Accident \u2013 \u201cIt Was the Target\u201d<\/a><\/h3>\n
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In particular, MSF (Doctors Without Borders) quickly publicized numerous facts that cast serious doubt on the original U.S. claim that the strike on the hospital was just an accident. To begin with, the organization had repeatedly advised the U.S. military of the exact GPS coordinates of the hospital. They did so most recently on September 29, just five days before the strike. Beyond that, MSF personnel at the\u00a0facility \u201cfrantically\u201d called U.S. military officials\u00a0during the strike\u00a0to advise them that the hospital was being hit and to plead with them to stop, but the strikes continued in a \u201csustained\u201d manner for 30 more minutes. \u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2013 From Glenn Greenwald\u2019s article:\u00a0The Radically Changing Story of the U.S. Airstrike on Afghan Hospital: From Mistake to Justification<\/a><\/p>\n

By now, all of you will have read about the U.S. military\u2019s recent bombing of a Doctors Without Borders hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan. What you may not be aware of, is how much the official story has changed in the days\u00a0since this inexcusable act of barbarism became public.<\/p>\n

Doctors Without Borders has been calling the attack a \u201cwar crime,\u201d which to the average American sounds outlandish and impossible. The justification for this claim is simple \u2014\u00a0that the airstrike wasn\u2019t an accident at all, and that the U.S. military intentionally targeted the hospital.<\/strong>\u00a0As the days go by, it becomes increasingly clear that this is indeed the case, and the Pentagon is now scrambling to justify the intentional targeting of a hospital.<\/p>\n

As Glenn Greenwald reports\u00a0at the\u00a0Intercept<\/em><\/a>:<\/p>\n

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When news first broke of the\u00a0U.S. airstrike on the Doctors Without Borders hospital<\/a>\u00a0in Kunduz, Afghanistan, the response from the U.S. military was predictable and familiar. It was all just a big, terrible mistake, its\u00a0official statement suggested<\/a>: an airstrike it carried out in Kunduz \u201cmay have resulted in collateral damage to a nearby medical facility.\u201d Oops: our bad. Fog of war, errant bombs, and all that.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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