Report says combination of errors led to U.S. bombing of MSF hospital: NYT

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Reuters

Report says combination of errors led to U.S. bombing of MSF hospital: NYT
Reuters
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. air strike that destroyed a hospital run by Medecins Sans Frontieres in the northern Afghan city of Kunduz last month resulted from "human errors, failures in procedure and technical malfunctions," the New York Times reported on Tuesday, citing military officials briefed on an internal investigation.

The Oct. 3 attack, condemned by the medical charity as a war crime, killed 30 people and wounded at least 37. The findings of a U.S. military investigation into the incident will be made public on Wednesday, the Pentagon said.

"It's a combination of factors," the Times quoted an unnamed senior Defense Department official as saying, describing the findings in what it said was a 3,000-page investigative file.

Two other military officials said the Air Force AC130 gunship that attacked the hospital was intended to target a different compound several hundred feet (metres) away that was believed to be a Taliban base of operations, the paper reported.

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/report-says-combination-errors-led-u-bombing-msf-010451916.html

[forest444]

1. Sure they did.

Starting with the decision to allow craven psychopaths to run the drone program control rooms in the first place:

https://theintercept.com/2015/11/19/former-drone-operators-say-they-were-horrified-by-cruelty-of-assassination-program/

Children are "fun-sized terrorists"? We're just "cutting the grass"?

Air Force Staff Sargeant Brandon Bryant, a witness to the way these military installation were turned into dens of iniquity, said it best:

“We kill four and create 10 (militants). If you kill someone’s father, uncle or brother who had nothing to do with anything, their families are going to want revenge.”

[Kelvin Mace]

8. It wasn't a drone

it was a C130 gunship.

"Just following orders," dontcha ya know.

[forest444]

10. A gunship. Thank you.

Our tax dollars at play.

[uppityperson]

2. Even with high tech equipment they have to rely on "lets see if we can figure it out visually"

[840high]

3. Well I'm sure this will make the dead

feel better. Shame. Shame. Shame.

[rtb61]

4. Killing Unarmed people running away

So killing unarmed people running away was a error, let me guess the AC130 crew felt threatened and needed to defend themselves. Trying to picture the nature of that gutless cowardly crew and the officers in charge, their murderous drives, their desire to blow unarmed people running away to bits, that kind of sickness, I wonder if they had one hand on the planes joystick and the other on their own, as their sexual lusts were fired up by the carnage they were causing.
What is it about the nature of Americans that they can so readily and with complete absence of conscience gun down unarmed people with claims of they felt threatened and seemingly revel in it.

[cstanleytech]

5. Ya they are going around just shooting hospitals because they enjoy doing it and they love the bad

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PR it causes.

[Fred Sanders]

6. Nothing that more money added to the half trillion dollar toilet known as the military can't fix!

What explains the American gunship straffing the "mistaken" target with the huge aerial footprint 5 different times in an hour in repeated circling and killing fleeing staff and patients and visitors dead in the streets and in their beds????

[Demeter]

7. The error was in thinking nobody would notice, or care

The Drone President has gotten away with murder. So far.

[randome]

9. Yet not a peep about Putin bombing hospitals.

We get all hot and lathered about a drone strike without understanding that 'boots on the ground' would create even more civilian casualties. And when Russia does the same, well, let's just keep pretending that we're Evil Incarnate because, hey, at least it makes us stand out from the crowd, right?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/syria/11964301/Twelve-Syria-hospitals-hit-by-airstrikes-as-Russian-jets-bombard-country.html

The group did not attribute blame for the airstrikes, which took place in the provinces of Aleppo, Idlib, Hama, but other aid groups say that at least seven hospitals or clinics have been hit by Russian jets since Moscow intervened militarily in Syria’s conflict at the end of September.

So who is going to be first to declare that Russia is creating more terrorists with every civilian killed?

[hr][font color="blue"][center]All things in moderation, including moderation.[/center][/font][hr]

[EX500rider]

11. Maybe MSF will start marking their hospitals as required in a warzone now?

Since AC-130 attacks are all captured on video MSF admitted that the building in question was not marked, as stipulated in international agreements, as a medical facility.

http://strategypage.com/htmw/htun/articles/20151122.aspx

[Javaman]

12. So in summation the U.S. investigation amounts to the government saying: Oops!

sorry, doesn't wash.

that hospital was the subject of bombing for over a months time.

nothing quite like the smell of bullshit.

[GoneFishin]

13. Bullshit for consumption by the naive, because you can fool some of the people all of the time.