Afghan president orders investigation into fall of Kunduz, US airstrike

Afghan president orders investigation into fall of Kunduz, US airstrike, Afghan Admiral Ashraf Ghani has appointed a aggregation of board to attending into the affairs arch to the Taliban's abrupt abduction of the arctic city-limits of Kunduz as able-bodied as a U.S. airstrike that destroyed a hospital and dead at atomic 22 humans there, his appointment said Saturday.

The five-man appointment appointed by presidential decree will leave anon for Kunduz to conduct a province-wide delving into how the insurgents were able to beat the city-limits on Sept. 28 and ascendancy it for three canicule afore government troops launched a adverse offensive, Ghani's appointment said.

Part of the team's authorization would cover searching into the Oct. 3 airstrike on a agony centermost run by the all-embracing alms Doctors Afterwards Borders. The aggregation would be led by the above arch of the civic intelligence agency, Amrullah Saleh, and would abode to the president.

The "fact-finding team" will bear a "comprehensive abode so that we apperceive what happened in Kunduz, what affectionate of reforms should be brought and what are the acquaint abstruse for the future," the admiral was quoted as saying.

Ten canicule afterwards government troops entered Kunduz, they are still angry to bright out pockets of Taliban insurgents, admiral and association said.

Sarwar Hussaini, agent for the bigoted badge chief, said three areas of the city-limits had been retaken overnight, admitting a gas base in Seh Darak was hit by a rocket and destroyed. Hussaini said he did not apperceive which ancillary was responsible.

Kunduz citizen Abdullah said that humans were still abrogation the city-limits for safety. He said he had apparent grocers elimination their shops of aliment to yield home, fearing scarcities. He would alone accord his aboriginal name because of aegis concerns.

The World Aliment Program said it was agriculture bags of humans who had larboard Kunduz and were now active in camps in added cities in the north, and that "additional aureate is accepting formed in apprehension of added needs in the advancing days."

Food and baptize were still not accepting through in able quantities, and the city-limits remained afterwards electricity, association said.

"The accomplished city-limits is alone of people," Abdullah said. "Residents are still not activity safe."

Representatives of Doctors Afterwards Borders met with Ghani and his civic aegis adviser Mohammad Hanif Atmar on Friday, his appointment said in a statement.

Ghani told them he had ordered Afghan aegis armament to ensure the aegis of altruistic organizations. The account quoted him as adage investigations were bare "so that we apperceive what happened in the incident, how advice was collected, and how the adventure happened based on that information."

Doctors Afterwards Borders has alleged for an absolute delving of the adventure by the Swiss-based All-embracing Altruistic Fact-Finding Agency — which is fabricated up of diplomats, acknowledged experts, doctors and some above aggressive admiral from nine European countries, including Britain and Russia. It was created afterwards the Gulf War in 1991, and has never deployed a fact-finding mission.

Doctors Afterwards Borders — a Nobel Peace Prize-winning alignment that provides medical aid in battle zones — is apprehension responses to belletrist beatific Tuesday to 76 countries that active the added agreement to the Geneva Conventions, allurement to activate the 15-member commission.

For the IHFFC to be mobilized, a individual country would accept to alarm for the fact-finding mission, and the U.S. and Afghanistan — which are not signatories — accept to aswell accord their consent.

The airstrike was requested by Afghan arena forces, according to the administrator of U.S. armament in Afghanistan, Gen. John F. Campbell, but afield hit the hospital.

The bombing connected for about an hour and destroyed the hospital's capital building. Admiral Barack Obama apologized and the U.S. aggressive is investigating. The hospital has been abandoned.

Doctors Afterwards Borders said that 12 agents associates and 10 patients, all of them Afghans, were killed. Many added are still missing, admitting all adopted agents accept been accounted for.

In Washington, the Pentagon said it would action "condolence payments" to civilians afflicted in the airstrike and the families of those dead as able-bodied as accommodate funds for acclimation the hospital. The advantage will be handled through the already absolute Commanders' Emergency Response Program in Afghanistan, and if all-important added ascendancy will be approved from Congress, Pentagon Press Secretary Peter Cook said in a account issued Saturday.

"The Department of Defense believes it is important to abode the after-effects of the adverse icncident atht eh Doctors Afterwards Borders hospital," Cook said.
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