NBC: MSF: 'Potential Evidence' Was Destroyed by Vehicle at Kunduz Hospital
A vehicle containing U.S. personnel "destroyed potential evidence" on Thursday by forcing its way onto the ruined site of a hospital bombed by American forces in Afghanistan, the charity said.
Doctors Without Borders, which ran the facility in Kunduz, initially said the vehicle was a "U.S. tank," but later corrected its statement and said it was an armored vehicle without specifying a country.
The charity, which is also known as Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), said in an emailed statement to NBC News that it had been informed the vehicle contained a delegation from a "U.S./NATO/Afghan investigation team" looking into the incident. It did not say who provided that information.
Update #1: US tank enters ruined Afghan hospital putting 'war crime' evidence at risk (The Guardian).
Update #2: The U.S. Investigation Into The Kunduz Hospital Bombing Is Off To A Rough Start -- Huffington Post
WNU Editor: With each passing day this case is giving the U.S. and its coalition partners a bigger black eye .... U.S. official: Doctors Without Borders 'did everything right' before airstrike (CNN). And while I do not know if the above report of the U.S./NATO team forcing their way onto the hospital grounds is true, it will not surprise me if they did. But what is even more disturbing is that both Washington and Kabul are stopping any independent investigation from happening .... Washington and Kabul Stand in the Way of International Probe Into Kunduz Attack (Foreign Policy).
