So much for revealing details of its October airstrike on a Doctors Without Borders clinic—the U.S. military was silent as a deadline passed Tuesday amid calls for an independent probe.
When the U.S. military fired on a hospital in Afghanistan last month, the Pentagon promised to reveal details about the disastrous airstrike within 30 days.
That promise has not been kept. And according to Doctors Without Borders, the U.S. military has stonewalled attempts for an independent investigation of the incident.
The intransigence is particularly baffling because, in the days after the attack, which left at least 23 people dead, senior military and White House officials had enough information to say publicly the U.S. had made a “mistake” by firing on the hospital.
Update #1: Group renews push for hospital bombing probe on anniversary (The Hill)
Update #2: Doctors Without Borders demands justice over Kunduz airstrike (DW)
Update #3: No signs of promised report 1 month after Afghan hospital bombing (Washington Examiner)
WNU Editor: They must not feel comfortable with what they have discovered to be this quiet. They may still release this report within the next week or two .... but my gut is telling me that a preliminary report will probably be released around Christmas .... where such news is buried and forgotten.
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