US against independent inquiry into MSF hospital attack: Pundit
Press TV has conducted an interview with Jim W. Dean, managing editor of Veterans Today from Atlanta, to get his take on the US bombing of a Doctors Without Borders’ hospital in Kunduz, northern Afghanistan.
The following is a rough transcription of the interview.
Press TV: This showing of opposition to what had happened on that fateful day where this hospital was struck by the US, it is not just looking for answers though is it this also to hold people accountable.
Dean: That’s true and it’s a really horrible situation, because in this day and age with all the technology that we have these non-combatants in areas where you had conflict going on for a long time like the hospitals always have given their GPS coordinates to everybody.
So, both sides – the Afghanistan government and the US – cannot show them by accident and these gunships particularly they’re usually locating and firing using satellite GPS coordination.
So, it’s almost mind-boggling to think in this day and age that the AC-130 gunship could fly around in circles for half an hour lobbying 30-millimeter shells down into that hospital situation and then claim that they didn’t know what it was.
Now, that’s complicated unfortunately, by they’re seeing that we had the airstrike called in by Afghanistan government troops on the ground and we will lay on their determining whether it’s legitimate target.
So, that’s why you have both the US and the Afghanistan government don’t want to get the independent investigation in there and find if at the least you have criminal negligence here.
Press TV: Very recently a hospital in Yemen, which is run by Doctors Without Borders, an UN agency, was also bombed. Why do you think similar protests and outrages haven’t been expressed about that?
Dean: Because nobody knows where Yemen is and a lot of folks don’t even know what’s going on there, because it’s just a country that’s hardly on the map. For you now, watching on alternative media most people really don’t know what’s going on. Supporting Yemen is at the end of a line when it comes to getting into touch ...
But it’s also something that may not be a coincidence, they have two of their hospitals struck so close together. Anybody and the intelligence world would say the answer that happening are almost impossible.
So, I would think this Saudi attack is more suspect of having been done on purpose. Then what looks like it could have been a miscommunication in Afghanistan, but to continue for 30 minutes and the phone calls in no way to have some kind of emergency phone call stop an attack like that. At this stage and again what is the longest war going on in Afghanistan that’s just mind-boggling.
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