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To: TimF who wrote (905247)	12/4/2015 5:26:17 PM
From: J_F_Shepard	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1576972

Which does not amount to any real evidence that - "that the hospital was selected as the target and known to be the target by those ordering and carrying out the attack." The investigation is complete........we fucked up royally..... nytimes.com The Cascade of Errors That Led to the U.S. Airstrike on an Afghan Hospital By GREGOR AISCH, JOSH KELLER and SERGIO PEÇANHA NOV. 25, 2015 American military officials described a series of technical and communication failures that led an American AC-130 gunship to strike a Doctors Without Borders hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan, last month, killing 30 people. Here are some of the findings from a military investigation. Related Article The gunship crew set out without a normal mission brief or a list of no-strike targets. The aircraft took off in haste because of an unrelated emergency and then was diverted to strike a building that Americans believed had been taken over by the Taliban. As a result, the crew did not have a list of no-strike targets, including the hospital, which was nearby. Kunduz Afghanistan The hospital was hit in an airstrike on Oct. 3 Hospital hit in airstrike Kunduz 500 feet The New York Times\|Satellite image by DigitalGlobe via Bing Maps Communications systems on the aircraft stopped working. Key electronic systems failed during the flight, preventing the crew from sending video or sending and receiving electronic messages. The systems included a video feed that would normally have sent pictures to higher-level commanders in real time. The crew could not locate the intended target. As the aircraft approached Kunduz, it moved outside of its normal flight path because the crew thought it was targeted by a missile. As a result, the aircraft targeting system became misaligned, and coordinates that should have identified the target building instead marked an empty field. Location of American commander on the ground Position first indicated by aircraft sensor Intended target 1,080 feet 1,320 feet 1,450 feet Hospital attacked The New York Times\|Satellite image by DigitalGlobe via Bing Maps Crew members picked the hospital based on a visual description. Without exact coordinates, the crew mistakenly focused on the hospital, because it was near the empty field and roughly matched a visual description of the intended target. Even after the targeting system was fixed and correctly aligned with the intended target, the crew continued to focus on the hospital. Hospital attacked Intended target The New York Times\|Satellite images by DigitalGlobe via Bing Maps Senior officials approved the strike despite having the hospital coordinates. One minute before firing, crew members told officials at Bagram Airfield headquarters that they intended to strike a target and gave them the coordinates. The officials had a no-strike list that included the hospital and its coordinates, but they did not connect the information to realize that the crew was preparing to hit the hospital. The strike continued after Doctors Without Borders notified the American military. Twelve minutes into the airstrike, Doctors Without Borders succeeded in reaching the Special Forces commander to inform him of the attack. But the strike was not called off until 17 minutes later, after the aircrew had already stopped firing. The timeline given by Gen. John F. Campbell, the top American commander in Afghanistan, does not agree with accounts by Doctors Without Borders and other witnesses, who said the strike went on for more than an hour. “The U.S. version of events presented today leaves M.S.F. with more questions than answers,” said Christopher Stokes, the general director of Médecins Sans Frontières, the French name of Doctors Without Borders. “The frightening catalog of errors outlined today illustrates gross negligence on the part of U.S. forces and violations of the rules of war.”