Obama apologizes to aid group for US attack on Afghan clinic,Admiral Barack Obama apologized to Doctors Without Borders on Wednesday for the American air advance that dead at atomic 22 humans at a medical dispensary in Afghanistan, and said the U.S. would appraise aggressive procedures to attending for bigger means to anticipate such incidents.
Obama's buzz alarm to the group's all-embracing president, Joanne Liu, came just a day afterwards the White House had chock-full abbreviate of an apology, cat-and-mouse to apprentice added while acknowledging that the advance was a U.S. mistake. White House agent Josh Earnest said Obama offered condolences to the group's agents and apprenticed a "transparent, absolute and cold accounting of the facts."
"When the United States makes a mistake, we own up to it, we apologize area appropriate, and we are honest about what transpired," Earnest said. He declared the alarm as a "heartfelt apology."
Emerging data about the erroneous bang accept alone fueled growing accusation by Doctors Without Borders and added aid groups in the four canicule back the dispensary in the arctic city-limits of Kunduz came beneath fire, killing noncombatant workers and patients. Afterwards antecedent confusion, admiral bent the U.S. had agitated out the strike, an acceptance that complicates aerial U.S. efforts in Afghanistan as Obama weighs how abounding troops to leave there.
Obama told Doctors Without Borders that the U.S. would analysis the advance to actuate whether changes to U.S. aggressive procedures could abate the affairs of a agnate incident. Obama aswell batten to Afghan Admiral Ashraf Ghani to back condolences and acclaim Afghan armament for accepting Kunduz, the White House said. Taliban fighters had bedeviled ascendancy of Kunduz for three canicule endure week.
Investigations by the U.S., NATO and the Afghan government are underway, but Doctors Without Borders has alleged them bereft and accepted an absolute fact-finding mission. Without acclamation that demand, the White House offered assurances that the Pentagon would accurately backpack out its centralized probe.Doctors Without Borders has aswell said the bang may accept been a war abomination and has declared it as an advance on the Geneva Conventions administering altruistic analysis during war. But the White House apprenticed backbone while the Pentagon works to authorize what transpired.
Asked whether the acknowledgment adumbrated U.S. accountability for accident of life, Earnest said individuals would be captivated answerable if necessary.
U.S. admiral accept beneath to altercate a lot of affairs of the blunder, and it's not yet bright whether the bang exceeded the rules applying to American armament operating in Afghanistan. But the top U.S. administrator in Afghanistan, Gen. John F. Campbell, has said Afghan armament angry to balance Kunduz from the Taliban had requested U.S. air power, and that a U.S. appropriate operations assemblage in the "close vicinity" was communicating with the aggregation of the heavily armed AC-130 gunship that pummeled the hospital.
Obama's buzz alarm to the group's all-embracing president, Joanne Liu, came just a day afterwards the White House had chock-full abbreviate of an apology, cat-and-mouse to apprentice added while acknowledging that the advance was a U.S. mistake. White House agent Josh Earnest said Obama offered condolences to the group's agents and apprenticed a "transparent, absolute and cold accounting of the facts."
"When the United States makes a mistake, we own up to it, we apologize area appropriate, and we are honest about what transpired," Earnest said. He declared the alarm as a "heartfelt apology."
Emerging data about the erroneous bang accept alone fueled growing accusation by Doctors Without Borders and added aid groups in the four canicule back the dispensary in the arctic city-limits of Kunduz came beneath fire, killing noncombatant workers and patients. Afterwards antecedent confusion, admiral bent the U.S. had agitated out the strike, an acceptance that complicates aerial U.S. efforts in Afghanistan as Obama weighs how abounding troops to leave there.
Obama told Doctors Without Borders that the U.S. would analysis the advance to actuate whether changes to U.S. aggressive procedures could abate the affairs of a agnate incident. Obama aswell batten to Afghan Admiral Ashraf Ghani to back condolences and acclaim Afghan armament for accepting Kunduz, the White House said. Taliban fighters had bedeviled ascendancy of Kunduz for three canicule endure week.
Investigations by the U.S., NATO and the Afghan government are underway, but Doctors Without Borders has alleged them bereft and accepted an absolute fact-finding mission. Without acclamation that demand, the White House offered assurances that the Pentagon would accurately backpack out its centralized probe.Doctors Without Borders has aswell said the bang may accept been a war abomination and has declared it as an advance on the Geneva Conventions administering altruistic analysis during war. But the White House apprenticed backbone while the Pentagon works to authorize what transpired.
Asked whether the acknowledgment adumbrated U.S. accountability for accident of life, Earnest said individuals would be captivated answerable if necessary.
U.S. admiral accept beneath to altercate a lot of affairs of the blunder, and it's not yet bright whether the bang exceeded the rules applying to American armament operating in Afghanistan. But the top U.S. administrator in Afghanistan, Gen. John F. Campbell, has said Afghan armament angry to balance Kunduz from the Taliban had requested U.S. air power, and that a U.S. appropriate operations assemblage in the "close vicinity" was communicating with the aggregation of the heavily armed AC-130 gunship that pummeled the hospital.
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