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US to release report on failings leading to airstrike on Afghanistan hospital
Source: The Guardian
US to release report on failings leading to airstrike on Afghanistan hospital
Pentagon to declassify assessment following internal investigation
of attack on Kunduz hospital run by Médecins Sans Frontières
Spencer Ackerman in New York
Wednesday 27 April 2016 19.16 BST
The Pentagon is due to release a report on an internal investigation into one of the most infamous episodes of the war in Afghanistan: a special operations airstrike on a hospital in the north of the country that left 42 civilians dead.
The report provides an official assessment of the failings that led to a US AC-130 gunship attacking a Kunduz hospital run by Médecins Sans Frontières, or Doctors Without Borders, several of whose patients burned to death in their beds. The organization has called the strike a deliberate act tantamount to a war crime.
Defense sources indicated declassification of the long-awaited report could come as soon as this week. In the fall, US officials said an unspecified number of officers involved in the strike had been suspended from duty.
“Although no nation does more than the United States to avoid civilian casualties, in this particular incident, we did not meet our own high standards,” a senior Pentagon policy official, Brian McKeon, wrote to the nongovernmental organization Physicians for Human Rights last month.
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Pentagon to declassify assessment following internal investigation
of attack on Kunduz hospital run by Médecins Sans Frontières
Spencer Ackerman in New York
Wednesday 27 April 2016 19.16 BST
The Pentagon is due to release a report on an internal investigation into one of the most infamous episodes of the war in Afghanistan: a special operations airstrike on a hospital in the north of the country that left 42 civilians dead.
The report provides an official assessment of the failings that led to a US AC-130 gunship attacking a Kunduz hospital run by Médecins Sans Frontières, or Doctors Without Borders, several of whose patients burned to death in their beds. The organization has called the strike a deliberate act tantamount to a war crime.
Defense sources indicated declassification of the long-awaited report could come as soon as this week. In the fall, US officials said an unspecified number of officers involved in the strike had been suspended from duty.
“Although no nation does more than the United States to avoid civilian casualties, in this particular incident, we did not meet our own high standards,” a senior Pentagon policy official, Brian McKeon, wrote to the nongovernmental organization Physicians for Human Rights last month.
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Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/apr/27/afghanistan-hospital-airstrike-pentagon-report
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