Kunduz
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Battles of Kunduz: US/Afghan ‘friendly fire’ By Eric Walberg
For 45 minutes, like ominous clouds, the planes fired pot shots, as if warming up, taunting or warning the doctors and patients, who started to flee and were mowed down. Finally, the pilots of the gunships launched full scale fire at 2am, on both the hospital and civilians fleeing what was clearly the target of… Continue reading
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Media Lens: Kunduz Killers Go Free
On the night of October 3, 2015, a United States Air Force AC-130 gunship repeatedly attacked a Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan. Forty-two people were killed and dozens wounded. The US military plane had conducted five strafing runs over the course of more than an hour despite MSF pleas to Afghan, US… Continue reading
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Media Lens: I would have refused such an order’ – Former RAF Pilot Gives His View Of US Bombing Of MSF Hospital In Kunduz
On October 24, MSF announced that 30 people had now tragically died, up from the initial toll of 22. The humanitarian organisation, also known as Doctors Without Borders, continued to call for an independent international investigation into what it has called a ‘war crime’. Associated Press has just reported new evidence ‘that U.S. forces destroyed… Continue reading
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Media Lens: Sick Sophistry – BBC News On The Afghan Hospital ‘Mistakenly’ Bombed By The United States
One of the defining features of the corporate media is that Western crimes are ignored or downplayed. The US bombing of a Médecins Sans Frontières hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan, on the night of October 3, is an archetypal example. At least twenty-two people were killed when a United States Air Force AC-130 repeatedly attacked the… Continue reading
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NYT Continues to Obscure Responsibility in US’s Bombing of Hospital
The New York Times followed up its euphemistic and equivocal coverage (FAIR Blog, 10/5/15) of the US bombing of the Médecins Sans Frontières hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan, with an article (10/6/15) that continued to downplay the US’s responsibility for the deaths of 12 hospital staffers and 10 patients. Continue reading
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Media Are Blamed as US Bombing of Afghan Hospital Is Covered Up
When US enemies like Russia carry out airstrikes, all nuance is thrown out the window; US media drop their standards and gleefully accuse the enemies of war crimes. Yet when the US and NATO carry out airstrikes, journalists suddenly have a newfound skepticism. Their language immediately becomes ambiguous, their writing unclear; murky passages written in… Continue reading
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War In Afghanistan Evokes Second World War Parallels By Rick Rozoff
The assault on Marjah was intended and presented as a warm-up exercise for the campaign in Kandahar province and city scheduled to begin as early as June, and the public relations blitz before the February attack on Marjah was of a scope customarily reserved for high-budget Hollywood releases and professional sports events. The self-celebratory propaganda… Continue reading
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