The Radically Changing Story of the U.S. Airstrike on Afghan Hospital: From Mistake to Justification

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34. Top U.S. general in Afghanistan: Hospital was ‘mistakenly struck’

By Missy Ryan and Thomas Gibbons-Neff
The Washington Post, October 6 at 10:14 AM

Gen. John F. Campbell, the commander of U.S. and allied forces in Afghanistan, told the Senate Armed Services Committee on Tuesday that the strikes on a Kunduz hospital were not intended to kill medical staff or patients.

“A hospital was mistakenly struck,” Campbell told lawmakers. “We would never intentionally target a protected medical facility.”

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Army Gen. John Campbell, commander of U.S. forces in Afghanistan, told reporters Monday at a news conference that Afghan forces “advised that they were taking fire from enemy positions and asked for air support from U.S. forces.” Campbell made it clear that this differed from initial reports that said U.S. forces were under attack and called in the airstrikes for their defense.

Campbell’s remarks differed from two previous comments, including one made by Secretary of Defense Ashton B. Carter on Sunday that said U.S. forces were under attack.

“At some point in the course of the events there [they] did report that they, themselves, were coming under attack. That much I think we can safely say,” Carter told reporters Sunday.

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Fog of war and all that rot doesn't change the fact that you noted, hobbit709: The alibi keeps changing or as the spinmeisters may say, "evolving."