While air power is essential, it alone cannot bring the results we seek. The United States—in conjunction with our NATO allies and more Arab partners—will need to increase our presence on the ground,” Bush said during a speech at The Citadel military college.
“Radical Islamic terrorists have declared war on the western world. Their aim is our total destruction. We can’t withdraw from this threat, nor negotiate with it,” Bush said. “We have but one choice: to defeat it.”
A US tank has forced its way into the shell of the Afghanistan hospital destroyed in an airstrike 11 days ago, prompting warnings that the US military may have destroyed evidence in a potential war crimes investigation.
The 3 October attack on the Médécins sans Frontières (MSF) hospital in Kunduz killed 10 patients and 12 staff members of the group.
In a statement on Thursday, the medical charity, also known as Doctors Without Borders, said they were informed after Thursday’s “intrusion” that the tank was carrying investigators from a US-Nato-Afghan team which is investigating the attack.
http://www.infowars.com/us-tank-enters-ruined-afghan-hospital-putting-war-crime-evidence-at-risk/
The suspected US-led air strike on a hospital in the Afghan city of Kunduz that killed at least 19 people, including 12 members of Doctors Without Borders (MSF), was “inexcusable” and possibly criminal, the UN’s human rights chief has said, as the Pentagon ordered an investigation into the deadly raid.
Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein called for a full and transparent investigation, noting that, “if established as deliberate in a court of law, an air strike on a hospital may amount to a war crime”.
Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein called for a full and transparent investigation, noting that, “if established as deliberate in a court of law, an air strike on a hospital may amount to a war crime”.
“This event is utterly tragic, inexcusable, and possibly even criminal,” Zeid said in a statement.
Among the fatalities in the early Saturday morning attack were three children.
http://www.infowars.com/un-says-afghan-hospital-bombing-may-be-war-crime/
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