Episode 125 - The Kunduz Airstrike

Lions Led By Donkeys Podcast

Lions Led By Donkeys

Comedy

4.6 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 12 October 2020

⏱️ 80 minutes

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During the Battle of Kunduz, the US bombed a Doctors Without Borders hospital, one of the worst war crimes of the Afghan War. Nobody has ever been punished for it. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Check out our store: https://teespring.com/stores/lions-led-by-donkeys-store Sources: https://www.msf.org/kunduz-hospital-attack-depth https://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/latest/afghanistan-marking-six-years-us-attack-msf-hospital-kunduz https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/pentagon-punish-16-afghan-hospital-airstrike-n564826 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/oct/21/kunduz-hospital-attack-even-in-20-years-we-wont-get-such-a-hospital-again https://www.hrw.org/news/2015/10/03/afghanistan-us-airstrike-hits-kunduz-hospital

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0:38.7	Importantly, the investigation concluded that the personnel involved did not know they were striking a medical facility.
0:45.0	The intended target was an insurgent controlled site, which was approximately 400 meters from the Doctors Without Borders Trauma Center.
0:53.2	The investigation found that an AC-130 gun ship air crew in support of a U.S. Special Forces
0:59.5	element that was supporting an Afghan partner ground force,
1:03.0	misidentified, and struck the Doctors Without Borders Trauma Center.
1:07.0	The investigation determined that all members of both the ground force
1:11.0	and the AC-130 air crew were unaware that the aircraft was firing on a medical
1:16.0	facility throughout the engagement. The investigation ultimately concluded that this tragic incident
1:22.3	was caused by a combination of human
1:24.2	heirs compounded by process and a...
1:26.4	Hello and welcome to yet another episode of the Lions Led by Donkeys
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