{"id":20626,"date":"2012-08-06T12:00:10","date_gmt":"2012-08-06T11:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=20626"},"modified":"2019-11-18T10:14:14","modified_gmt":"2019-11-18T10:14:14","slug":"horror-hospital-the-most-shocking-photos-and-testimony-from-the-dawood-military-hospital-scandal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2012\/08\/horror-hospital-the-most-shocking-photos-and-testimony-from-the-dawood-military-hospital-scandal\/","title":{"rendered":"Horror: Shocking Photos and Testimony from Afghanistan&#8217;s Dawood US Military Hospital Scandal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>If you look at only one story about the Afghan War this year, make it this one.<\/em><\/strong><em> An explosive Congressional investigation revealed horrific new details this week [27 Jul 2012] about a U.S. funded military hospital in Afghanistan that kept patients in \u201cAuschwitz-like\u201d conditions. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Warning: Graphic images. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The investigation also revealed that Lt. General William B. Caldwell, then commander of the $11.2 billion dollar a year Afghan training program, tried to block the probe and ordered a cover-up.<\/p>\n<p>There are currently two ongoing investigations looking into the Dawood Military Hospital abuses: one centered around the Military Whistleblower Protection Act, the other concerned with Caldwell\u2019s politically-motivated decision to delay investigations into the hospital until after the 2010 elections.<\/p>\n<p>What follows is a very disturbing look inside the Dawood National Military Hospital. It was compiled with sworn eye-witness testimony from the three U.S. Army colonels who blew the whistle on the scandal, as well as never-before published photos obtained by BuzzFeed.<\/p>\n<p>The photos and corresponding descriptions were collected by U.S. military personnel in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>The images are extremely graphic.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/rebeccaelliott\/horror-hospital-the-most-shocking-photos-and-test\" >PLEASE SEE THE PHOTOS AND VIDEOS IN THE ORIGINAL \u2013 buzzfeed.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you look at only one story about the Afghan War this year, make it this one. An explosive Congressional investigation revealed horrific new details this week [27 Jul 2012] about a U.S. funded military hospital in Afghanistan that kept patients in \u201cAuschwitz-like\u201d conditions. Warning: Graphic images.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,65,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-focus","category-anglo-america","category-central-asia-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20626\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}