U.S. troops who requested airstrike thought hospital was under Taliban control

The Army Green Berets who requested the Oct. 3 airstrike on the Doctors Without Borders trauma center in Afghanistan were aware it was a functioning hospital but believed it was under Taliban control, The Associated Press has learned.

The new information adds to a body of evidence that the internationally run medical facility site was familiar to the U.S. military, raising questions about whether the decision to attack it violated international law.

A day before an American AC-130 gunship attacked the hospital, a senior officer in the Green Beret unit wrote in a report that U.S. forces had discussed the hospital with the country director of the medical charity group, presumably in Kabul, according to two people who have seen the document. …

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U.S. troops who requested airstrike thought hospital was under Taliban control