U.S. official : Doctors Without Borders ’did everything right’

#MSF #Afghanistan #hôpital

▻http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-officials-knew-they-were-bombing-doctors-without-borders-hospital-

American special operations analysts knew they were bombing a hospital run by Doctors Without Borders, the Associated Press reports.

The US chose to move forward with the airstrike because they believed a Pakistani was holding heavy weapons in storage and using the hospital as a command center, according to the AP’s source who spoke on a condition of anonymity.

▻http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/oct/15/us-tank-enters-ruined-afghan-hospital-putting-war-evidence-at-risk

“There’s somebody in some part of the force that knows that’s a prohibited target,” Newton said. “The question then is, what are the fire control measures over that place?

“If they were followed, were they adequate? If they weren’t followed, why weren’t they followed? And underneath that, there’s two things. Either, one – they were misapplied. Or, two, there was an exception.”

An example of an exception would be a case of self-defense, Newton said.

Finalement, non, celui qui a fait ça ne savait pas qu’il s’agissait d’un hôpital :
▻http://edition.cnn.com/2015/10/16/politics/doctors-without-borders-hospital-airstrike-kunduz/index.html

There is nothing to indicate the people who made the ultimate decision to pull the trigger knew it was a hospital," one of the officials said. The official couldn’t say who ultimately authorized the strike, but said the point is the initial results show they did not initiate the attack knowing it was a hospital and override the restrictions because there were potential Taliban there.

“The idea we did this knowing it was a protected facility but there were bad guys there is preposterous,” the official said.

Et celui qui a fait ça l’a fait alors même que le Pentagone avait été alerté des le début par MSF, et que cette alerte avait été « mise dans le système »,

A U.S. defense official confirmed that someone from MSF called someone they knew on the Joint Staff during the attack, telling them the hospital was being hit. The defense official said the information received on that call “was quickly put into our system. Beyond that I can’t say where it went, but that the information on that and other phone calls have now been passed to the investigators.”

#monumental #foutage_de_gueule

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Et ça continue de plus belle,

Report : Troops who sought airstrike thought Taliban controlled Afghan hospital
▻http://www.stripes.com/news/middle-east/report-troops-who-sought-airstrike-thought-taliban-controlled-afghan-hospit

Alors même que MSF avait assuré qu’il n’en était rien...

..., in the days before the attack, “an official in Washington” asked Doctors without Borders “whether our hospital had a large group of Taliban fighters in it,” spokesman Tim Shenk said in an email. “We replied that this was not the case. We also stated that we were very clear with both sides to the conflict about the need to respect medical structures.”

Taken together, the revelations add to the growing possibility that U.S. forces destroyed what they knew was a functioning hospital, which would be a violation of the international rules of war. The Pentagon has said Americans would never have intentionally fired on a medical facility, and it’s unclear why the Green Beret unit requested the strike — and how such an attack was approved by the chain of command — on coordinates widely known to have included a hospital.

#mascarade #farce #impunité