A U.S. AC-130 Gunship Was Responsible For The Kunduz Hospital Attack

AC-130 Gunship. YouTube

David Axe, Daily Beast: The U.S. Gunship that Slaughtered Doctors and Patients in Kunduz

The crews of the AC-130, a low, slow plane bristling with guns, don’t have to follow the same rules as those in other U.S. warplanes

The American warplane that apparently struck a Doctors Without Borders clinic in the embattled city of Kunduz in northern Afghanistan on October 3, killing 22 people, was probably an AC-130 gunship — a lumbering, four-engine transport modified to carry a powerful arsenal of side-firing guns.

Maybe the gunship’s crew knew exactly where the clinic was in Kunduz, maybe it didn’t. Maybe there were Taliban fighters nearby, maybe there weren’t.

Regardless, the AC-130 blasted the vicinity of the clinic for more than an hour, repeatedly striking the medical facility. And the U.S. military’s lax rules allowed it to happen.

Update: U.S. Changes Story on Deadly Kunduz Strike -- US News and World Report

WNU Editor: I cannot help but feel that if President Bush was still President .... and this horrifying bombing of a hospital filled with innocent patients and doctors happened under his watch .... the press would be covering it non-stop .... Abu-Gharib times a 100. Instead .... the press is covering it like this .... Barack Obama promises full probe into suspected US airstrike on Kunduz hospital (The Guardian) .... condolences and a promise for a full investigation. Sighhh .... this is a text book example on U.S. media bias.

Update #2: Glenn Greenwald comments on how the media is covering this tragedy .... CNN and the NYT Are Deliberately Obscuring Who Perpetrated the Afghan Hospital Attack (Glenn Greenwald, Intercept).