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Reflexx Franchise Player
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Posted: Sat Oct 03, 2015 6:49 am Post subject: We bombed Doctors Without Borders |
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http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2015/10/03/u_s_airstrike_on_afghan_doctors_without_borders_hospital_kills_nine.html
Quote: | There are differing accounts about whether there had been fighting around the hospital that could have led to the airstrike, notes the New York Times. Hospital staff say there was no fighting nearby and no Taliban fighters in the hospital. But a police spokesman contends Taliban fighters were opening fire from the hospital. “The hospital treated the wounded from all sides of the conflict, a policy that has long irked the Afghan security forces,” notes the Times. |
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lakersfreak Franchise Player
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Buck32 Star Player
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Posted: Sat Oct 03, 2015 7:29 am Post subject: |
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Jeb: "Stuff happens." _________________ “Properly read, the bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.”
― Isaac Asimov |
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Reflexx Franchise Player
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Posted: Sat Oct 03, 2015 8:06 am Post subject: |
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Buck32 wrote: | Jeb: "Stuff happens." |
Probably the most out of context quote ever. |
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ContagiousInspiration Franchise Player
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Posted: Sat Oct 03, 2015 7:49 pm Post subject: |
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Who cares
we've killed 200,000? Iraqis Pakistanis and Afghanis since the war started
AND FOR WHAT? |
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lakersfreak Franchise Player
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Posted: Mon Oct 05, 2015 8:04 am Post subject: |
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lakersfreak wrote: |
Joint op to with Afgan to retake city, US providing air support.
Many unanswered questions such as who was designating targets.
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Afghan forces who reported being under Taliban fire requested the U.S. airstrike that killed 22 people at a medical clinic in northern Afghanistan over the weekend, the top commander of American and coalition forces in Afghanistan said Monday, correcting an initial U.S. statement that the strike had been launched because U.S. forces were threatened.
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_UNITED_STATES_AFGHANISTAN?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2015-10-05-09-46-12 |
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