Were US forces tricked into destroying a Doctors Without Borders hospital?

Did Afghan forces mislead US forces into destroying the Doctors Without Borders hospital in Kunduz? By Matthieu Aikins

Were US forces tricked into destroying a Doctors Without Borders hospital?

For the last hour, the US gunship had been circling high above the city, carefully observing its target with night-vision sensors and waiting for clearance to strike.

It was 2am on October 3, 2015, and Kunduz City was enveloped in total darkness. The city’s power had gone out five days before — soon after the Taliban took over the provincial capital, in a humiliating blow to the US and Afghan governments — and it stayed off through the bitter fighting that followed, as commandos from both nations counter-attacked.

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