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US delivers WhiteWash of Kunduz strike before Black Friday

by DLi
2 days before Black Friday, the U.S. rogue regime delivered a complete WhiteWash of a report on last month's bombing of a Doctors Without Borders(MSF) hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan, killing at least 31 innocent staffers and patients. Refusing to accept an independent investigation, Washington blamed the massacre on info mix-ups and technical flaws in the GPS targeting systems. Not a single US personnel was held responsible, and the report was released on the eve before a major holiday, hence the American "corporate-bin-Laden" media dutifully mouthpieced the clearly biased report with no intense questioning.
The Pentagon "investigation" follows a typical pattern of hand-wringing at every level, beginning with the avoidance of the 3 to 4 contradictory explanations offered by the Pentagon right after the bombing. Also true to the colonialist arrogance of the continual US occupation, the Afghan regime was not allowed to lead the investigation(a typical protocol under normal international practice), nor would Washington subject US military perpetrators to face potential war crime charges under the "sovereign" Afghan justice system!
Just for comparison, after the massive BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico(which killed 11 oil workers), would the US allow BP to conduct its own investigation without independent experts? Would Washington simply close the case had BP blamed the whole disaster on technical flaws and info foul-ups?
Don't hold your breath, there is ZERO chance that the US Congress will hold any hearings on such a terror attack on civilians. Such is the Imperialist "rule of law" with this 2-decade long military aggression that continues to kill innocent lives with impunity.
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