AP Interview: MSF says bombing of Afghan hospital no mistake, The arch of an all-embracing medical alms whose hospital in arctic Afghanistan was destroyed in a U.S. airstrike says the "extensive, absolutely absolute destruction" of the bombing arrest casts agnosticism on American aggressive assertions that it was a mistake.
The Oct. 3 advance on the admixture in Kunduz city, which dead at atomic 22 patients and hospital staff, should be advised as a accessible war crime, said Christopher Stokes, accepted administrator of Doctors Without Borders, which is aswell accepted by its French abridgement MSF.
The agony hospital was austere during a firefight amid Taliban and government troops, as U.S. admiral were allowance Afghan armament balance the city-limits afterwards the insurgents overran it and bedeviled ascendancy on Sept. 28. Afghan authorities say they are now abundantly aback in ascendancy of Kunduz.
U.S. President Barack Obama has apologized for the attack, and the administrator of U.S. and NATO troops in Afghanistan, Gen. John F. Campbell, said it was a mistake. He said the bang had been alleged in by Afghan forces, but has not explained absolutely how it happened or who accepted final approval. Internal aggressive investigations are underway, with basic after-effects accepted in advancing days.
According to Associated Press reporting, American appropriate operations analysts were analytical the Afghan hospital canicule afore it was destroyed because they believed it was getting 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.
"The hospital was afresh hit both at the foreground and the rear and abundantly destroyed and damaged, even admitting we accept provided all the coordinates and all the appropriate advice to all the parties in the conflict," Stokes said, continuing in the burned-out basic hospital building.
"The extensive, absolutely absolute abolition of this hospital ... doesn't announce a mistake. The hospital was afresh hit," Stokes said. The bombing went on for added than an hour, admitting calls to Afghan, U.S. and NATO to alarm if off, MSF has said.
Stokes, who has alleged for an absolute analysis into the incident, told The Associated Press in an account in the charcoal of the hospital on Friday that MSF basic a "clear account because all break point to a grave aperture of all-embracing altruistic law, and accordingly a war crime."
Afghan authorities accept banned to animadversion afore investigations are complete. President Ashraf Ghani's agent spokesman, Zafar Hashemi, told reporters on Saturday that the Afghan government has "faith" in investigations getting conducted by the U.S. military, and by a collective Afghan-NATO team.
MSF has denied there were any armed Taliban on the hospital area at the time of the attack. "The admixture was not entered by Taliban soldiers with weapons," Stokes said. "What we accept accepted from our agents and guards is that there was actual strong, actual acceptable ascendancy of what was accident in and about the admixture and they appear no battlefront in the hours above-mentioned the abolition of the hospital."
More than 70 agents associates were on duty, disposed to added than 100 patients at the time, he said.
According to its policy, MSF treats government troops and anarchical combatants equally. Hospitals are admired as adequate sites in war.
Doctors Without Borders admiral accept said the U.S. gunship fabricated 5 abstracted strafing runs over the advance of an hour, administering abundant blaze on the basic hospital building, which independent the emergency allowance and accelerated affliction unit. Surrounding barrio were not hit. The hospital is no best operable.
Stokes said that "until we accept what happened and we can accretion guarantees that this unacceptable advance cannot appear again, we cannot reopen and put our agents in danger."
MSF, a Nobel Peace Prize-winning alignment that provides medical aid in battle zones, has alleged for an analysis by the All-embracing Altruistic 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.
The agony hospital was austere during a firefight amid Taliban and government troops, as U.S. admiral were allowance Afghan armament balance the city-limits afterwards the insurgents overran it and bedeviled ascendancy on Sept. 28. Afghan authorities say they are now abundantly aback in ascendancy of Kunduz.
U.S. President Barack Obama has apologized for the attack, and the administrator of U.S. and NATO troops in Afghanistan, Gen. John F. Campbell, said it was a mistake. He said the bang had been alleged in by Afghan forces, but has not explained absolutely how it happened or who accepted final approval. Internal aggressive investigations are underway, with basic after-effects accepted in advancing days.
According to Associated Press reporting, American appropriate operations analysts were analytical the Afghan hospital canicule afore it was destroyed because they believed it was getting 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.
"The hospital was afresh hit both at the foreground and the rear and abundantly destroyed and damaged, even admitting we accept provided all the coordinates and all the appropriate advice to all the parties in the conflict," Stokes said, continuing in the burned-out basic hospital building.
"The extensive, absolutely absolute abolition of this hospital ... doesn't announce a mistake. The hospital was afresh hit," Stokes said. The bombing went on for added than an hour, admitting calls to Afghan, U.S. and NATO to alarm if off, MSF has said.
Stokes, who has alleged for an absolute analysis into the incident, told The Associated Press in an account in the charcoal of the hospital on Friday that MSF basic a "clear account because all break point to a grave aperture of all-embracing altruistic law, and accordingly a war crime."
Afghan authorities accept banned to animadversion afore investigations are complete. President Ashraf Ghani's agent spokesman, Zafar Hashemi, told reporters on Saturday that the Afghan government has "faith" in investigations getting conducted by the U.S. military, and by a collective Afghan-NATO team.
MSF has denied there were any armed Taliban on the hospital area at the time of the attack. "The admixture was not entered by Taliban soldiers with weapons," Stokes said. "What we accept accepted from our agents and guards is that there was actual strong, actual acceptable ascendancy of what was accident in and about the admixture and they appear no battlefront in the hours above-mentioned the abolition of the hospital."
More than 70 agents associates were on duty, disposed to added than 100 patients at the time, he said.
According to its policy, MSF treats government troops and anarchical combatants equally. Hospitals are admired as adequate sites in war.
Doctors Without Borders admiral accept said the U.S. gunship fabricated 5 abstracted strafing runs over the advance of an hour, administering abundant blaze on the basic hospital building, which independent the emergency allowance and accelerated affliction unit. Surrounding barrio were not hit. The hospital is no best operable.
Stokes said that "until we accept what happened and we can accretion guarantees that this unacceptable advance cannot appear again, we cannot reopen and put our agents in danger."
MSF, a Nobel Peace Prize-winning alignment that provides medical aid in battle zones, has alleged for an analysis by the All-embracing Altruistic 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.
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