The New York Times first disclosed the investigation's conclusions today. Such a briefing could have contained information that the location of the Doctors Without Borders hospital was a protected site. official, who noted that the AC-130 crew had also not received a full pre-flight briefing prior to the mission as they had been redirected from another location. The investigation found that the mistaken targeting of the hospital occurred as the result of visual descriptions of another compound in the same general area that had been seized by the Taliban, according to the U.S. Shortly after the airstrike occurred, Campbell told Congress that it had been a mistake and soon after President Obama apologized to the president of Doctors Without Borders, also known by its French name, Médecins Sans Frontières. commander in Afghanistan, is set to release conclusions of a 3,000-page investigative report into the airstrike. Doctors Without Borders has said that the airstrike killed at least 30 doctors and patients at the hospital. officials familiar with the contents of the report. and Afghan special operations forces that seemed to match the other compound seized by the Taliban, said the U.S. The hospital was targeted by mistake based on visual descriptions provided by U.S. military investigation has determined that a Doctors Without Borders hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan, was mistakenly targeted by the crew of an AC-130 gunship that believed it was targeting another compound several hundred yards away that had been taken over by the Taliban, a U.S.
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