Afghan Forces Requested Bombing That Killed At Least 23 At Hospital
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The commander of U.S. forces in Afghanistan says the strike on the Doctors Without Borders hospital was done at the request of Afghan forces.
An AC-130 gunship carried out the strike in question, Gen. John Campbell said, offering his “deepest condolences.”
The deadly bombing of a Doctors Without Borders hospital in the embattled Afghan city of Kunduz over the weekend has prompted outrage around the world.
The United States, which says it carried out an airstrike in the area at the time of the bombing, is investigating what happened.
But the aid group is demanding an independent inquiry into what it is calling “a war crime.”
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D.B. Hirsch is a political activist, news junkie, and retired ad copy writer and spin doctor. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.