Pentagon to declassify assessment following internal investigation of attack on Kunduz hospital flee by Médecins Sans FrontièresThe Pentagon is due to release a report on an internal investigation into one of the most notorious episodes of the war in Afghanistan: a special operations airstrike on a hospital in the north of the country that left 42 civilians dead.
The report provides an official assessment of the failings that led to a US AC-130 gunship attacking a Kunduz hospital flee by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF),or Doctors Without Borders, several of whose patients burned to death in their beds. The organization has called the strike a deliberate act tantamount to a war crime. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com