Afghan defense minister says Taliban hid in bombed hospital, Afghanistan's acting aegis abbot said on Monday that the Doctors Afterwards Borders hospital in the arctic of the country that was austere by U.S. armament was accepting acclimated by insurgents who were angry government forces.
Masoom Stanekzai told The Associated Press in an account that Taliban insurgents and possibly Pakistani intelligence agents were application the ability in Kunduz city-limits as a "safe place."
The hospital was austere by a U.S. AC-130 gunship in the aboriginal hours of Oct. 3, killing at atomic 22 humans and abasing abounding more. The basic architecture was destroyed and the hospital has been shut down.
"That was a abode they basic to use as a safe abode because everybody knows that our aegis armament and all-embracing aegis armament were actual accurate not to do annihilation with a hospital," Stanekzai said. "But if there was on one of the walls of the hospital, there was a Taliban banderole — what can you think?"
The group, aswell accepted by its French acronym MSF, has again denied the attendance of Taliban fighters in the hospital admixture at the time of the attack.
Kate Stegeman, MSF's communications administrator in Afghanistan said on Monday: "We reiterate that every agents affiliate in Kunduz alive for MSF has again appear to us that there were no armed humans in the hospital at the time of the bombing."
Doctors afterwards Borders has accustomed that it advised blood-soaked Taliban fighters at the Kunduz hospital, but it insists no weapons were accustomed in. Afghans who formed at the hospital accept told the AP that no one was battlefront from within.
But Stanekzai insisted that a Taliban banderole had been hoisted on the walls about the hospital admixture and that the militants were application it as a base.
"I am adage the admixture was accepting acclimated by humans who were angry there, whether it was Taliban or ISI or whoever they were," he said, apropos to Pakistan's able Inter-Services Intelligence agency, continued accused by Kabul of acknowledging the Taliban. "If the angry was not advancing from there, that affectionate of a aberration will never happen."
Taliban fighters took ascendancy of Kunduz on Sept. 28 in a multi-pronged abruptness attack. What followed was a three-day annexation and killing bacchanalia that assured if government armament launched a adverse abhorrent on Oct. 1.
The hospital was austere again just afterwards 2 a.m. on Oct. 3. President Barack Obama apologized for the bombing and the administrator of U.S. and NATO armament in Afghanistan, Gen. John F. Campbell said it was a mistake. He said the airstrike had been alleged in by Afghan forces.
According to AP reporting, American appropriate operations analysts were analytical the Afghan hospital canicule afore it was destroyed because they believed it was accepting acclimated by a Pakistani accessible to alike Taliban activity. The analysts knew it was a medical facility, according to a above intelligence official who is accustomed with some of the abstracts anecdotic the site.
It's cryptic whether that advice anytime got to commanders who unleashed the AC-130 gunship on the hospital.
Details of the adventure are accepting advised by the U.S. military, NATO and by the Afghan government as allotment of its delving into how the Taliban were able to yield over the bigoted capital, the aboriginal above burghal centermost they've taken back a U.S. aggression agitated their administration and the affront began in 2001. Preliminary data of the NATO analysis are accepted in the advancing days.
The appropriate operations analysts had accumulated a abstracts that included maps with the hospital circled, forth with break that intelligence agencies were tracking the area of the Pakistani accessible and action letters based on aerial surveillance, according to a above intelligence official who is accustomed with some of the abstracts anecdotic the site. The intelligence appropriate the hospital was accepting acclimated as a Taliban command and ascendancy centermost and may accept housed abundant weapons.
After the attack, some U.S. analysts adjourned that the bang had been justified, the above administrator says. They assured that the Pakistani, believed to accept been alive for the ISI intelligence agency, had been killed.
No affirmation has alike about suggesting a Pakistani died in the attack, and Doctors afterwards Borders, the all-embracing alignment that ran the hospital, says none its agents was Pakistani. The above intelligence official was not accustomed to animadversion about and batten alone on action of anonymity.
The new data about the military's suspicions that the hospital was accepting abolished complicate an already black account and add to the changing questions about one of the affliction noncombatant blow incidents of the Afghan war. They aswell accession the achievability of a breakdown in intelligence administration and advice beyond the aggressive alternation of command.
MSF, a Nobel Accord Prize-winning alignment that provides medical aid in battle zones, has alleged for an analysis by the All-embracing Humanitarian Fact-Finding Commission, based in the Swiss capital, Bern. It is fabricated up of diplomats, acknowledged experts, doctors and some above aggressive admiral from nine European countries, including Britain and Russia. An IHFFC analysis needs the cooperation of both Afghanistan and the U.S. afore it can proceed, which neither government is accepted to give.
Stankezai said Afghanistan will not abutment the array of analysis that MSF has demanded. "If you access the amount of commissions and investigating teams, that will accomplish it added complicated instead of accepting into the facts. Already there are three investigations; how abounding added do you need?"
Stanekzai said his government had affirmation the insurgents were communicating with command and ascendancy centers in Pakistan. "We accept traced actual acutely the communications they were accepting from Quetta, Peshawar and Karachi," he said, allotment three Pakistani cities area the Afghan Taliban attendance is broadly known.
"That aswell agency that there are bases there from area they are authoritative those calls and all-embracing radio communications. That is absolutely frankly, clear, that advice did exist," he said.
"How can any country acquiesce the nationals of added countries to accept such all-embracing operations from their clay and just sit and watch them," Stanekzai said.
The Afghan government has in contempo months aboveboard accused Pakistan of acknowledging the Taliban's war adjoin Kabul. Afterwards an attack at adept detente to end the war, President Ashraf Ghani's government appear that Taliban baton Mullah Mohammad Omar had been asleep for added than two years — bottomward an centralized Taliban ability attack and the abandoning of accord talks.
The Taliban called Mullah Akhtar Mansoor, Mullah Omar's above agent who is believed to accept ISI backing, as their new leader. The Kunduz operation is apparent as Mansoor's attack to consolidate ability and argue detractors that he can yield the action to the battlefield and draw added anarchical groups to accompany him. His assembly are chief associates of the well-funded Haqaani arrangement agitator group, and he has about declared a affiliation with al-Qaeda.
Stanekzai and added Afghan leaders accept said the Taliban in Kunduz were abutting added anarchical groups, including the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan — which has its architect on Central Asia.
The hospital was austere by a U.S. AC-130 gunship in the aboriginal hours of Oct. 3, killing at atomic 22 humans and abasing abounding more. The basic architecture was destroyed and the hospital has been shut down.
"That was a abode they basic to use as a safe abode because everybody knows that our aegis armament and all-embracing aegis armament were actual accurate not to do annihilation with a hospital," Stanekzai said. "But if there was on one of the walls of the hospital, there was a Taliban banderole — what can you think?"
The group, aswell accepted by its French acronym MSF, has again denied the attendance of Taliban fighters in the hospital admixture at the time of the attack.
Kate Stegeman, MSF's communications administrator in Afghanistan said on Monday: "We reiterate that every agents affiliate in Kunduz alive for MSF has again appear to us that there were no armed humans in the hospital at the time of the bombing."
Doctors afterwards Borders has accustomed that it advised blood-soaked Taliban fighters at the Kunduz hospital, but it insists no weapons were accustomed in. Afghans who formed at the hospital accept told the AP that no one was battlefront from within.
But Stanekzai insisted that a Taliban banderole had been hoisted on the walls about the hospital admixture and that the militants were application it as a base.
"I am adage the admixture was accepting acclimated by humans who were angry there, whether it was Taliban or ISI or whoever they were," he said, apropos to Pakistan's able Inter-Services Intelligence agency, continued accused by Kabul of acknowledging the Taliban. "If the angry was not advancing from there, that affectionate of a aberration will never happen."
Taliban fighters took ascendancy of Kunduz on Sept. 28 in a multi-pronged abruptness attack. What followed was a three-day annexation and killing bacchanalia that assured if government armament launched a adverse abhorrent on Oct. 1.
The hospital was austere again just afterwards 2 a.m. on Oct. 3. President Barack Obama apologized for the bombing and the administrator of U.S. and NATO armament in Afghanistan, Gen. John F. Campbell said it was a mistake. He said the airstrike had been alleged in by Afghan forces.
According to AP reporting, American appropriate operations analysts were analytical the Afghan hospital canicule afore it was destroyed because they believed it was accepting acclimated by a Pakistani accessible to alike Taliban activity. The analysts knew it was a medical facility, according to a above intelligence official who is accustomed with some of the abstracts anecdotic the site.
It's cryptic whether that advice anytime got to commanders who unleashed the AC-130 gunship on the hospital.
Details of the adventure are accepting advised by the U.S. military, NATO and by the Afghan government as allotment of its delving into how the Taliban were able to yield over the bigoted capital, the aboriginal above burghal centermost they've taken back a U.S. aggression agitated their administration and the affront began in 2001. Preliminary data of the NATO analysis are accepted in the advancing days.
The appropriate operations analysts had accumulated a abstracts that included maps with the hospital circled, forth with break that intelligence agencies were tracking the area of the Pakistani accessible and action letters based on aerial surveillance, according to a above intelligence official who is accustomed with some of the abstracts anecdotic the site. The intelligence appropriate the hospital was accepting acclimated as a Taliban command and ascendancy centermost and may accept housed abundant weapons.
After the attack, some U.S. analysts adjourned that the bang had been justified, the above administrator says. They assured that the Pakistani, believed to accept been alive for the ISI intelligence agency, had been killed.
No affirmation has alike about suggesting a Pakistani died in the attack, and Doctors afterwards Borders, the all-embracing alignment that ran the hospital, says none its agents was Pakistani. The above intelligence official was not accustomed to animadversion about and batten alone on action of anonymity.
The new data about the military's suspicions that the hospital was accepting abolished complicate an already black account and add to the changing questions about one of the affliction noncombatant blow incidents of the Afghan war. They aswell accession the achievability of a breakdown in intelligence administration and advice beyond the aggressive alternation of command.
MSF, a Nobel Accord Prize-winning alignment that provides medical aid in battle zones, has alleged for an analysis by the All-embracing Humanitarian Fact-Finding Commission, based in the Swiss capital, Bern. It is fabricated up of diplomats, acknowledged experts, doctors and some above aggressive admiral from nine European countries, including Britain and Russia. An IHFFC analysis needs the cooperation of both Afghanistan and the U.S. afore it can proceed, which neither government is accepted to give.
Stankezai said Afghanistan will not abutment the array of analysis that MSF has demanded. "If you access the amount of commissions and investigating teams, that will accomplish it added complicated instead of accepting into the facts. Already there are three investigations; how abounding added do you need?"
Stanekzai said his government had affirmation the insurgents were communicating with command and ascendancy centers in Pakistan. "We accept traced actual acutely the communications they were accepting from Quetta, Peshawar and Karachi," he said, allotment three Pakistani cities area the Afghan Taliban attendance is broadly known.
"That aswell agency that there are bases there from area they are authoritative those calls and all-embracing radio communications. That is absolutely frankly, clear, that advice did exist," he said.
"How can any country acquiesce the nationals of added countries to accept such all-embracing operations from their clay and just sit and watch them," Stanekzai said.
The Afghan government has in contempo months aboveboard accused Pakistan of acknowledging the Taliban's war adjoin Kabul. Afterwards an attack at adept detente to end the war, President Ashraf Ghani's government appear that Taliban baton Mullah Mohammad Omar had been asleep for added than two years — bottomward an centralized Taliban ability attack and the abandoning of accord talks.
The Taliban called Mullah Akhtar Mansoor, Mullah Omar's above agent who is believed to accept ISI backing, as their new leader. The Kunduz operation is apparent as Mansoor's attack to consolidate ability and argue detractors that he can yield the action to the battlefield and draw added anarchical groups to accompany him. His assembly are chief associates of the well-funded Haqaani arrangement agitator group, and he has about declared a affiliation with al-Qaeda.
Stanekzai and added Afghan leaders accept said the Taliban in Kunduz were abutting added anarchical groups, including the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan — which has its architect on Central Asia.
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