AC-130 crew blamed for mistakes in deadly U.S. attack on Afghan clinic
Sunday, May 1, 2016
WASHINGTON -- Human error, violations of combat rules and untimely equipment failures led to the mistaken U.S. aerial attack on a charity-run hospital in Afghanistan last fall that killed 42 people, a senior American general said. Investigators called the attack a "disproportional response to a threat that didn't exist."
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