Murder is murder, whether it is by the hand of an insane young man
randomly killing students and faculty at a peaceful community college,
or by the approval of the president of the United States. Even as
president Obama denounced those cold murders in Roseburg, Oregon,
plans were being made to destroy a hospital in Afghanistan, staffed
with members of Doctor's Without Borders.
Well Mister Obama, if you believe American lives are so much more
valuable, then you are an elitist of the rankest order. I regret
voting for you in 2008. When the Day of Accounting arrives, your
murders will far outweigh your tears for our innocent American
children.
Carl Jarvis
On 10/3/15, Miriam Vieni <miriamvieni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Seems like we're taking lessons from Israel. Remember their bombing of
hospitals last summer in Gaza? And this too, apparently, was no accident.
Miriam
Greenwald writes: "Early this morning, in the Afghan city of Kunduz, the
U.S. dropped bombs on a hospital run by Doctors Without Borders (Medecins
Sans Frontieres (MSF)). The airstrike killed at least 9 of the hospital's
medical staff, and seriously injured dozens of patients. 'Among the dead
was
the Afghan head of the hospital, Abdul Sattar,' reported The New York
Times."
Glenn Greenwald. (photo: Occupy.com)
One Day After Warning Russia of Civilian Casualties, the US Bombs a
Hospital
in Afghanistan
By Glenn Greenwald, The Intercept
03 October 15
esterday afternoon, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power
marched to Twitter to proclaim: “we call on Russia to immediately cease
attacks on Syrian oppo[sition and] civilians.” Along with that decree, she
posted a statement from the U.S. and several of its closest authoritarian
allies – including Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the UK – warning Russia that
civilian casualties “will only fuel more extremism and radicalization.”
Early this morning, in the Afghan city of Kunduz, the U.S. dropped bombs on
a hospital run by Doctors Without Borders (Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)).
The airstrike killed at least 9 of the hospital’s medical staff, and
seriously injured dozens of patients. “Among the dead was the Afghan head
of
the hospital, Abdul Sattar,” reported The New York Times.
Jason Cone, MSF’s Executive Director, said the medical charity “condemns in
the strongest possible terms the horrific bombing of its hospital in Kunduz
full of staff and patients.” He added that “all parties [to the] conflict,
including in Kabul & Washington, were clearly informed of precise GPS
Coordinates of MSF facilities in Kunduz,” and that the “precise location of
MSF Kunduz hospital [was] communicated to all parties on multiple occasions
over past months, including on 9/29.” Worst of all, from MSF itself:
For its part, the U.S. military in Afghanistan issued a statement
acknowledging that it carried out airstrikes, claimed they were conducted
“against individuals threatening the force,” and conceded that “the strike
may have resulted in collateral damage to a nearby medical facility.” But
the NYT reported: “From early on, the Taliban had respected the hospital’s
request not to bring weapons inside, according to staff members, and the
hospital had been a refuge in the shattered city of Kunduz. It was a place
where the wounded from all sides were treated.”
The medical organization noted that “our hospital in Kunduz was the only
one
of its kind in NorthEastern Afghanistan.” It referenced a now-poignant
tweet
it posted earlier in the week:
Now, however, the Twitter accounts of various MSF branches are filled with
horrific photographs of their staff traumatized and their hospital burning
as a result of U.S. bombs:
MSF’s full, frequently updated, hard-to-read account of all of this is
here.
This strike on a hospital in Afghanistan comes days after the Saudi-led
coalition bombed a wedding in Yemen that killed more than 130 people. After
days of silence from the U.S. Government – which has actively participated
from the start in the heinous bombing of Yemen – Ambassador Power finally
acknowledged the wedding massacre, but treated it like some natural
disaster
that has nothing to do with the U.S.: “Terrible news from Yemen of killing
of innocent civilians & aid workers. Urgently need pol solution to crisis,”
she tweeted.
Her accompanying statement claimed that “the United States has no role in
the targeting decisions made by the Coalition in Yemen,” but yesterday, the
Saudi Foreign Minister told CBS News that “We work with our allies
including
the United States on these targets.” There’s no dispute that the U.S. has
lavished the Saudis with all sorts of weapons and intelligence as it
carries
out its civilian-massacring attacks on Yemen.
This last week has been a particularly gruesome illustration of continuous
U.S. conduct under the War on Terror banner, including under the Nobel
Peace
Prize-winning president who celebrates himself for “ending two wars” (in
the
same two countries where the U.S. continues to drop bombs). The formula by
now is clear: bombing whatever countries it wants, justifying it all by
reflexively labeling their targets as “terrorists,” and then dishonestly
denying or casually dismissing the civilians they slaughter as “collateral
damage.” If one were to construct a list of all the countries in the world
based on their credibility to condemn Russia for using this exact
rhetorical
template in Syria, the U.S. would literally be last on that list.
UPDATE: U.S. officials went to TIME Magazine yesterday to announce that
Russia will be creating more terrorists than they kill as a result of
misguided airstrikes in Syria. “We believe if you inadvertently kill
innocent men, women and children, then there’s a backlash from that,”
Lieut.
General Bob Otto, the Air Force’s deputy chief of staff for intelligence,
surveillance and reconnaissance said. “We might kill three and create 10
terrorists. It really goes back to the question of are we killing more than
were making?”
It’s impossible to fathom what the U.S. media would be saying and doing if
Russia did something like this in Syria. By contrast, the reaction to this
airstrike by their own government will be muted and filled with apologia,
ironically quite similar to the widely vilified caricature of Jeb Bush’s
comments about the Oregon shooting spree: “stuff happens.”
UPDATE II: Al Jazeera reports that the hospital bombed by the U.S. “is the
only medical facility in the region that can deal with major injuries.”
Nonetheless, “officials of MSF … told Reuters that they ‘frantically
phoned’
NATO and Washington DC, as bombs rained on the hospital for ‘nearly an
hour.'”
UPDATE III: The latest casualty figures from MSF:
Speaking to the nation just three days ago about the Oregon shooting spree,
Barack Obama said: “This is a political choice that we make, to allow this
to happen every few months…” That applies to a lot more than that incident.
UPDATE IV: Several reports suggest that this hospital has been viewed with
hostility because it treats all injured human beings, regardless of which
side they’re on. “The hospital treated the wounded from all sides of the
conflict, a policy that has long irked the Afghan security forces,” reports
the NYT. Al Jazeera notes that “a caretaker at the hospital, who was
severely injured in the air strike, told Al Jazeera that clinic’s medical
staff did not favour any side the conflict. ‘We are here to help and treat
civilians,’ Abdul Manar said.” That same caretaker added: “Several women
and
children are also killed in the strike. I could hear them screaming for
help
inside the hospital while it was set ablaze by the bombing. We are
terrified
and speechless.”
UPDATE V: The U.N. human rights chief has denounced the U.S. airstrike as
“tragic, inexcusable, and possibly even criminal.”
This is not the first time this has happened. In 2004, U.S. airstrikes in
Falluja, Iraq hit a hospital and “razed it to the ground.”
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valid.
Glenn Greenwald. (photo: Occupy.com)
https://theintercept.com/2015/10/03/one-day-after-warning-russia-of-civilian
-casualties-the-u-s-bombs-a-hospital-in-the-war-obama-ended/https://theinter
cept.com/2015/10/03/one-day-after-warning-russia-of-civilian-casualties-the-
u-s-bombs-a-hospital-in-the-war-obama-ended/
One Day After Warning Russia of Civilian Casualties, the US Bombs a
Hospital
in Afghanistan
By Glenn Greenwald, The Intercept
03 October 15
esterday afternoon, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power
marched to Twitter to proclaim: “we call on Russia to immediately cease
attacks on Syrian oppo[sition and] civilians.” Along with that decree, she
posted a statement from the U.S. and several of its closest authoritarian
allies – including Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the UK – warning Russia that
civilian casualties “will only fuel more extremism and radicalization.”
Early this morning, in the Afghan city of Kunduz, the U.S. dropped bombs on
a hospital run by Doctors Without Borders (Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)).
The airstrike killed at least 9 of the hospital’s medical staff, and
seriously injured dozens of patients. “Among the dead was the Afghan head
of
the hospital, Abdul Sattar,” reported The New York Times.
Jason Cone, MSF’s Executive Director, said the medical charity “condemns in
the strongest possible terms the horrific bombing of its hospital in Kunduz
full of staff and patients.” He added that “all parties [to the] conflict,
including in Kabul & Washington, were clearly informed of precise GPS
Coordinates of MSF facilities in Kunduz,” and that the “precise location of
MSF Kunduz hospital [was] communicated to all parties on multiple occasions
over past months, including on 9/29.” Worst of all, from MSF itself:
For its part, the U.S. military in Afghanistan issued a statement
acknowledging that it carried out airstrikes, claimed they were conducted
“against individuals threatening the force,” and conceded that “the strike
may have resulted in collateral damage to a nearby medical facility.” But
the NYT reported: “From early on, the Taliban had respected the hospital’s
request not to bring weapons inside, according to staff members, and the
hospital had been a refuge in the shattered city of Kunduz. It was a place
where the wounded from all sides were treated.”
The medical organization noted that “our hospital in Kunduz was the only
one
of its kind in NorthEastern Afghanistan.” It referenced a now-poignant
tweet
it posted earlier in the week:
Now, however, the Twitter accounts of various MSF branches are filled with
horrific photographs of their staff traumatized and their hospital burning
as a result of U.S. bombs:
MSF’s full, frequently updated, hard-to-read account of all of this is
here.
This strike on a hospital in Afghanistan comes days after the Saudi-led
coalition bombed a wedding in Yemen that killed more than 130 people. After
days of silence from the U.S. Government – which has actively participated
from the start in the heinous bombing of Yemen – Ambassador Power finally
acknowledged the wedding massacre, but treated it like some natural
disaster
that has nothing to do with the U.S.: “Terrible news from Yemen of killing
of innocent civilians & aid workers. Urgently need pol solution to crisis,”
she tweeted.
Her accompanying statement claimed that “the United States has no role in
the targeting decisions made by the Coalition in Yemen,” but yesterday, the
Saudi Foreign Minister told CBS News that “We work with our allies
including
the United States on these targets.” There’s no dispute that the U.S. has
lavished the Saudis with all sorts of weapons and intelligence as it
carries
out its civilian-massacring attacks on Yemen.
This last week has been a particularly gruesome illustration of continuous
U.S. conduct under the War on Terror banner, including under the Nobel
Peace
Prize-winning president who celebrates himself for “ending two wars” (in
the
same two countries where the U.S. continues to drop bombs). The formula by
now is clear: bombing whatever countries it wants, justifying it all by
reflexively labeling their targets as “terrorists,” and then dishonestly
denying or casually dismissing the civilians they slaughter as “collateral
damage.” If one were to construct a list of all the countries in the world
based on their credibility to condemn Russia for using this exact
rhetorical
template in Syria, the U.S. would literally be last on that list.
UPDATE: U.S. officials went to TIME Magazine yesterday to announce that
Russia will be creating more terrorists than they kill as a result of
misguided airstrikes in Syria. “We believe if you inadvertently kill
innocent men, women and children, then there’s a backlash from that,”
Lieut.
General Bob Otto, the Air Force’s deputy chief of staff for intelligence,
surveillance and reconnaissance said. “We might kill three and create 10
terrorists. It really goes back to the question of are we killing more than
were making?”
It’s impossible to fathom what the U.S. media would be saying and doing if
Russia did something like this in Syria. By contrast, the reaction to this
airstrike by their own government will be muted and filled with apologia,
ironically quite similar to the widely vilified caricature of Jeb Bush’s
comments about the Oregon shooting spree: “stuff happens.”
UPDATE II: Al Jazeera reports that the hospital bombed by the U.S. “is the
only medical facility in the region that can deal with major injuries.”
Nonetheless, “officials of MSF … told Reuters that they ‘frantically
phoned’
NATO and Washington DC, as bombs rained on the hospital for ‘nearly an
hour.'”
UPDATE III: The latest casualty figures from MSF:
Speaking to the nation just three days ago about the Oregon shooting spree,
Barack Obama said: “This is a political choice that we make, to allow this
to happen every few months…” That applies to a lot more than that incident.
UPDATE IV: Several reports suggest that this hospital has been viewed with
hostility because it treats all injured human beings, regardless of which
side they’re on. “The hospital treated the wounded from all sides of the
conflict, a policy that has long irked the Afghan security forces,” reports
the NYT. Al Jazeera notes that “a caretaker at the hospital, who was
severely injured in the air strike, told Al Jazeera that clinic’s medical
staff did not favour any side the conflict. ‘We are here to help and treat
civilians,’ Abdul Manar said.” That same caretaker added: “Several women
and
children are also killed in the strike. I could hear them screaming for
help
inside the hospital while it was set ablaze by the bombing. We are
terrified
and speechless.”
UPDATE V: The U.N. human rights chief has denounced the U.S. airstrike as
“tragic, inexcusable, and possibly even criminal.”
This is not the first time this has happened. In 2004, U.S. airstrikes in
Falluja, Iraq hit a hospital and “razed it to the ground.”
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