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n Kunduz, the acting governor, Hamdullah Danishi, also suggested that the airstrike was warranted.
He said Taliban fighters had been using the Doctors Without Borders compound to plot and carry out attacks across the city, including firing rocket-propelled grenades from the property.
“The hospital campus was 100 percent used by the Taliban,” Danishi said. “The hospital has a vast garden, and the Taliban were there. We tolerated their firing for some time” before responding.
Danishi said the suspected U.S. airstrike had been aimed along the perimeter of the hospital grounds. He said the main hospital building, where most of the causalities occurred, caught fire but was not the main target.
Doctors Without Borders strongly disputed suggestions that any Taliban fighters were inside the hospital at the time of the attack.
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/world...205_story.html
Looks like the Afghans call in a lot of airstrikes, and they called this one in. But it seems like they're not always on the same page as the western powers. Possibly they did not like MSF treating taliban fighters and called in the airstrikes for that reason. Who knows, but it's not so cut and dry.