{"id":64769,"date":"2015-10-05T12:00:49","date_gmt":"2015-10-05T11:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=64769"},"modified":"2019-11-18T10:05:56","modified_gmt":"2019-11-18T10:05:56","slug":"one-day-after-warning-russia-of-civilian-casualties-the-u-s-bombs-a-hospital-in-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2015\/10\/one-day-after-warning-russia-of-civilian-casualties-the-u-s-bombs-a-hospital-in-afghanistan\/","title":{"rendered":"One Day after Warning Russia of Civilian Casualties, the U.S. Bombs a Hospital in Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Glenn Greenwald<\/p><\/div>\n

3 Oct 2015 – <\/em>Yesterday afternoon, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power marched to Twitter to\u00a0proclaim<\/a>: \u201cWe call on Russia\u00a0to immediately cease attacks on Syrian opposition and\u00a0civilians.\u201d Along with that decree, she posted a statement from the U.S. and several of its closest authoritarian allies \u2014 including\u00a0Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the U.K. \u2014 warning Russia that civilian casualties \u201cwill only fuel more extremism and radicalization.\u201d<\/p>\n

Early this morning, in the Afghan city of Kunduz, the U.S. dropped bombs<\/a>\u00a0on a hospital run by Doctors Without Borders (M\u00e9decins Sans Fronti\u00e8res (MSF)). The airstrike killed at least nine of the hospital\u2019s medical staff, and seriously injured dozens of patients. \u201cAmong the dead was the Afghan head of the hospital, Abdul Sattar,\u201d reported the\u00a0New York Times.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Jason Cone, MSF\u2019s executive director, said<\/a> the medical charity \u201ccondemns in the strongest possible terms the horrific bombing of its hospital in Kunduz full of staff and patients.\u201d He added<\/a> that \u201call parties [to the]\u00a0conflict, including in Kabul & Washington, were clearly informed of precise GPS Coordinates of MSF\u00a0facilities in Kunduz,\u201d and that<\/a> the \u201cprecise location of MSF\u00a0Kunduz hospital [was] communicated to all parties on multiple occasions over past months, including on 9\/29.\u201d Worst of all, from MSF itself:<\/p>\n

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Bombing continued for >30 minutes after American & Afghan military officials in Kabul & Washington first informed of proximity to hospital.<\/p>\n

— MSF International (@MSF) October 3, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n