Article 1C8W6 That hospital we bombed in Afghanistan in 2015? Not a war crime, says Pentagon

That hospital we bombed in Afghanistan in 2015? Not a war crime, says Pentagon

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Xeni Jardin
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U.S. forces bombed a Doctors Without Borders-run hospital in Afghanistan last year, destroying it and killing and injuring scores of medical personnel and patients. But the air strike didn't amount to a war crime because it was caused by "unintentional human errors, process errors, and equipment failures," and "other factors," U.S. military authorities said today.

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