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11-25-2015, 03:14 PM
WASHINGTON -- A Pentagon investigation into the October bombing of a Doctors Without Borders hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan, found the airstrikes to be the result of “human error.”
The Pentagon has resisted calls for an independent investigation by an outside group into the Oct. 3 airstrikes that killed 30 Doctors Without Borders staff members and patients. On Wednesday, the military announced the conclusion of its own review of the incident.
“The report determined that the strike on the trauma center in Kunduz city, Afghanistan, was the direct result of human error compounded by systems and procedural failures,” Gen. John F. Campbell, the commander of U.S. forces in Afghanistan, said during a press briefing at the Pentagon.
The U.S. soldiers who executed the airstrikes did not know they were striking a hospital, Campbell said. Instead, they believed they were targeting a different building that is actually hundreds of meters away. But the military’s investigation found that both the personnel who called in the airstrikes and those who dropped the bombs “did not undertake the appropriate measures to verify that the facility was a legitimate target.”
Campbell said the soldiers directly involved in the airstrikes are currently suspended. Doctors Without Borders has said it believes the incident to be war crime (http://start.westnet.ca/newstempch.php?article=entry/doctors-without-borders-deliberate-hospital-bombing_5613dca5e4b0368a1a6108dd).
The Pentagon is expected to release a redacted version of its findings later on Wednesday.
This is a developing story and will be updated.
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The Pentagon has resisted calls for an independent investigation by an outside group into the Oct. 3 airstrikes that killed 30 Doctors Without Borders staff members and patients. On Wednesday, the military announced the conclusion of its own review of the incident.
“The report determined that the strike on the trauma center in Kunduz city, Afghanistan, was the direct result of human error compounded by systems and procedural failures,” Gen. John F. Campbell, the commander of U.S. forces in Afghanistan, said during a press briefing at the Pentagon.
The U.S. soldiers who executed the airstrikes did not know they were striking a hospital, Campbell said. Instead, they believed they were targeting a different building that is actually hundreds of meters away. But the military’s investigation found that both the personnel who called in the airstrikes and those who dropped the bombs “did not undertake the appropriate measures to verify that the facility was a legitimate target.”
Campbell said the soldiers directly involved in the airstrikes are currently suspended. Doctors Without Borders has said it believes the incident to be war crime (http://start.westnet.ca/newstempch.php?article=entry/doctors-without-borders-deliberate-hospital-bombing_5613dca5e4b0368a1a6108dd).
The Pentagon is expected to release a redacted version of its findings later on Wednesday.
This is a developing story and will be updated.
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