Instead, there are ascent break the U.S. aggressive relied heavily on Afghan allies who resented the internationally run Doctors Afterwards Borders hospital, which advised Afghan aegis armament and Taliban akin but says it banned to accept armed men.
The new affirmation includes data the AP has abstruse about the area of American troops during the attack. The U.S. appropriate armament assemblage whose administrator alleged in the bang was beneath blaze in the Kunduz bigoted governor's admixture a half-mile abroad from the hospital, according to a above intelligence official who has advised abstracts anecdotic the incident. The administrator could not see the medical ability — so couldn't apperceive immediate whether the Taliban were application it as a abject — and accustomed the advance on the advocacy of Afghan forces, the official said.
Members of the assemblage accept told Rep. Duncan Hunter, a California Republican who serves on the House Armed Services Committee, that they were blind their ambition was a activity hospital until the advance was over, said Joe Kasper, Hunter's spokesman.
Looking ahead, the bang raises questions about whether the U.S. aggressive can await on intelligence from Afghan allies in a war in which baby contingents of Americans will more action with beyond units of bounded forces.
Also at affair is how the ambition was vetted. American commanders, with adult advice technology at their disposal, accustomed the bang to go advanced admitting letters in their databases that the hospital was functioning. Even if armed Taliban fighters had been ambuscade inside, the U.S. acknowledges it would not accept been justified in antibacterial a alive hospital abounding with blood-soaked patients.
Jailani, a 31-year-old artisan who uses alone one name, says he was at the hospital to see his brother-in-law, Ibrahim, who was accepted two canicule afore the airstrike.
"On the day of the advance I was in the hospital from 9 a.m. until 5 a.m. During that time, the Taliban came in afterwards guns, as patients or accompanying their patients, or sometimes they came to yield their asleep out," he said. "They did not accept permission to access the hospital with their guns."
President Barack Obama has apologized for the attack. The Pentagon has said it was a aberration that resulted from both animal and abstruse errors, and it is investigating, forth with NATO and the Afghan government."No added nation in the history of warfare has gone to the lengths we do to abstain noncombatant casualties," Pentagon agent Navy Capt. Jeff Davis said in a statement. "And if we accomplish a mistake, we will not alone own up to it, we will aswell analyze all of the facts to apprentice from them so that it never happens again."
The advance by an AC-130 gunship came afterwards canicule of abundant angry in the arctic Afghanistan city. About 35 associates of the 3rd Appropriate Armament Group had been allowance about 100 Afghan appropriate armament soldiers balance Kunduz from the Taliban, the above U.S. intelligence official said. From their position in the governor's compound, they came beneath abundant advance by Taliban fighters, and accustomed to use air ability to abort the Taliban's actual command and ascendancy nodes about the city.
The Afghans insisted the hospital was one of those command centers, and apprenticed that it be destroyed, the above official said.
The AP has appear that some American intelligence appropriate the Taliban were application the hospital. Appropriate armament and Army intelligence analysts were coursing through letters of abundant weapons at the compound, and they were tracking a Pakistani intelligence accessible they believed was there.
It's cryptic how abundant of that intelligence came from Afghan appropriate forces. They had raided the hospital in July, gluttonous an al-Qaida affiliate they believed was getting treated, admitting protests from Doctors Afterwards Borders. Afterwards the American air attack, the Afghan soldiers rushed in, searching for Taliban fighters, Doctors Afterwards Borders said.
The U.S. 3rd Appropriate Armament Group knew the hospital was alleviative patients, according to a circadian log by one of its arch admiral accounting Oct. 2.
But 3rd Group aswell believed the admixture was beneath the ascendancy of the Taliban, the circadian log says, afterwards answer why. That acceptance was so common in the Pentagon that Carter Malkasian, a arch adviser to the administrator of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, emailed Doctors afterwards Borders two canicule afore the advance to ask about it. He was told it wasn't true.
It's not bright absolutely what the 3rd Group administrator who directed the bang knew about the hospital, and why he fabricated the accommodation to attack. Nor is it accepted who in the alternation of command advised and accustomed the decision, or what those humans knew.
Afghan admiral say their armament were aswell a bisected mile away, and accordingly could not accept been beneath absolute blaze from the hospital.
Drawing electricity from generators, the hospital was a part of the alone blithely lit barrio in Kunduz at night, Doctors Afterwards Borders has said.
In the hours afterwards the strike, Afghan civic aegis adviser Hanif Atmar, told a European agent he had the absolute ascendancy of President Ashraf Ghani to acknowledge the government of Afghanistan would yield abounding albatross for the airstrike. The AP is not allotment the agent because he was not accustomed to altercate the matter.
"There was no agnosticism whatsoever that the Taliban were central the hospital, that they took it over, appropriately actionable its sanctity," addendum of the affair adduce Atmar as saying.
Sarwar Hussain, agent for the Kunduz arch of police, told the AP, "The Taliban were about the admixture and were asleep if the admixture was hit."
Hamdullah Danishi, the acting governor of Kunduz, said Afghan aegis armament bare air abutment that day, "not alone for the MSF admixture but for every abode the Taliban were fighting."
The Taliban, he said, "used residential areas and civilians as shields, including noncombatant homes, bloom centers, schools, mosques and accessible places. This is why we say the Taliban hid during the advance central the (hospital) admixture and in added places."
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