American War Crimes, 2015 Edition: Can you spot the hospital from the air?

[Fred Sanders]

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US Used AC-130 Airborne Gunship Equipped with Anti-Personnel shells in Deadly Attack
Mon, 10/12/2015 - 11:18

by: Dave Lindorff


Evidence continues to mount that the US committed a monstrous war crime in attacking and destroying a fully operational hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan on the night of Oct. 3, killing at least 22 people including at least 12 members of the volunteer medical staff of Medicine Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders), the French based international aid organization that operated the hospital.

This even as the US desperately tries to bury the issue of its perfidy by offering “condolence payments” to victims of the attack, though without accepting blame beyond saying it was a “tragic mistake.”

The “mistake” claim looks increasingly shameless as it becomes clear that this was not, as the US corporate media continue to incorrectly report, a “bombing” gone wrong, but rather was a prolonged hour-long attack by an AC-130 gunship, the deadliest killing machine in the US Air Force’s weapons roster of airborne mayhem. The aircraft, equipped with the latest night-vision sighting equipment, reportedly made five 15-minute assaults on the hospital’s main building housing the emergency operating room and recovery rooms, firing its array of howitzer cannons, 30-millimeter machine canons and other heavy weapons whose standard ammunition includes both high-explosive tips and anti-personnel rounds designed to scatter death in a wide pattern.

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Friendly suggestion to the Pentagon.....clean your aircraft windshields and also think again before striking a target with only the coordinates given to you by the Afghan Army?

[hifiguy]

1. That is the very definition

of a WAR CRIME. And those responsible for it should be jailed. If Obama signed off on it, he can go to the clink too.

[Fred Sanders]

2. I doubt Obama was involved operationally in this or any of the other thousand American

aerial sorties.

High crimes accused require high evidence proven.

So, no not "off to the clink" for Obama...puzzling wishful thinking at DU is epidemic.

[hifiguy]

3. It was conditioned on "if"

But given that he individually selects the people who are killed via drone, more evidence is needed.

[Fred Sanders]

4. Individually selects the people who are killed by drone, you don't say???

[hifiguy]

7. Yup. He gets a little card

and like Nero decides who lives or dies.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=7261823

[Fred Sanders]

8. If the Daily Mail of the U.K. says so...anything from Fox?

P.s. No need to answer, how about that hospital war crime?

[geek tragedy]

10. This wasn't a drone strike.

It wasn't part of the targeted killing chain of command.

[1939]

5. Why?

Does the roof of the hospital not display a red cross or a red crescent? Being in the middle of a combat zone, that would seem to be a wise precaution.

[Fred Sanders]

6. Why no Red Cross markings? Why needed?

"The hospital in Kunduz was a well-known and long-established institution with a distinctive shape operating in a city that until recently was under full government control. That the US/NATO command did not clearly know the function of that structure is inconceivable, despite US government efforts to claim that a specific provision of the hospital’s coordinates to US forces by Medicine Sans Frontieres days before the attack “must have” gotten waylaid somewhere along the way." (see aerial photo of the hospital in Kunduz).

[EX500rider]

12. "The hospital in Kunduz was a well-known and long-established institution.."

Really, so every US pilot and drone operator could recognize it from any altitude and angle regardless of the time of day?
And I suppose they have memorized the location and aerial picture of every hospital and clinic in the whole country too?
If not it seems a red cross or crescent on the roof might have been a good idea also.

[GoneFishin]

9. Almost appears designed to provoke a terrorist attack. People are war weary and might need

another hatred booster to keep forking over defense contract dollars for endless wars.

[jtuck004]

11. And we obliged by blowing the clinic nearly out of existence. Blowing things up, even the stuff

on our side, is always good to whip up the home team.

Seems to help dissuade people from even trying to figure out who the real terrorists are.