Accuracy in Media

It seems wrong that the man who stood up to a child rapist would be forced out of the U.S. Army. Photo by ResoluteSupportMedia

The Free Beacon reported: U.S. special operations analysts were analyzing a hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan, days before it was destroyed in an airstrike amid suspicions it was the site of a Pakistani operative helping the Taliban organize. It remains unknown whether the U.S. commanders who launched the airstrike knew the target was a hospital.

A good write-up on the Doctors Without Borders hospital airstrike, where the hospital didn’t fly recognized international medical colors and may have contributed to the airstrike. But, it also detailed how the hospital did not want to become a target of the Taliban for flying such flags or insignia.

As the Washington Examiner reported: The airstrike that struck the hospital in Afghanistan on Saturday, killing 22 people, was not called in by U.S. troops, the general in charge of U.S. forces in Afghanistan said Monday. Afghan forces in the northern Afghan city of Kunduz came under fire and requested support from a U.S. AC-130 […]

Fox News reported: Afghanistan’s Defense Ministry said Tuesday that government forces had launched a counterattack to retake the strategic northern city of Kunduz from Taliban militants who had captured it on Monday. Meanwhile, the U.S. military said it had carried out an airstrike on the city “in order to eliminate a threat to the force,” […]