War
Crimes
U.S.
authorities knew they were attacking a hospital facility in
Afghanistan days before they conducted the operation on Oct. 3, the
Associated Press reported on Thursday.
According to
the report the special operations analysts were gathering
intelligence on the facility because they believed it was being used
by a Pakistani operative to coordinate Taliban activity.
U.S. fighter
jets struck an Afghan hospital run by Doctors Without Borders, an
international charity group based in Geneva, Switzerland.
The attack
killed 12 medical staff members and at least 10 patients, three of
them children, and injured at least 37 people. At least 33 people are
still missing after the airstrikes.
The Pentagon
first denied the attack. Then it changed its story to put the blame
on Afghan army officials. The U.S. military announced it will make
"condolence payments” to the injured and the families of 22
people who lost their lives in the attack and that it will also
conduct an investigation into the incident.
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