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malaise

(268,976 posts)
Tue Oct 27, 2015, 07:35 PM Oct 2015

Did you hear that another Doctors without Borders Hospital was bombed

this time by US ally Saudi Arabla in Yemen.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/doctors-without-borders-hospital-msf-yemen-airstrikes_562f45bde4b0c66bae594ff7
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A Doctors Without Borders hospital in Saada, Yemen, was hit by multiple airstrikes overnight, the group announced Tuesday morning. The hospital was destroyed but the group has not reported any deaths.

Doctors Without Borders identified the warplanes as belonging to a Saudi Arabian-led coalition, which has been ostensibly targeting the Houthi rebel group in Yemen since March. Of the approximately 5,000 people who have been killed in the civil war between the Houthis and Yemeni President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi’s government, half are civilians, the United Nations estimates.

Hassan Boucenine, head of Doctors Without Borders in Yemen, told The New York Times that the group had supplied the hospital's GPS coordinates to the Saudi coalition six months ago and reconfirmed them on a monthly basis.

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Did you hear that another Doctors without Borders Hospital was bombed (Original Post) malaise Oct 2015 OP
WTF? KamaAina Oct 2015 #1
AGREED!! WTF??!? 7wo7rees Oct 2015 #6
We Set The Trend, Dontcha Know... WillyT Oct 2015 #10
There was one by the Russians brush Oct 2015 #26
Besides vital aerial refuelling, what else is The Pentagon helping the Saudi terrorist nation with, Fred Sanders Oct 2015 #2
These folks are violating even the basic laws of war malaise Oct 2015 #3
+1000. nt. polly7 Oct 2015 #11
Yes, it showed up on my FB news feed. :( MerryBlooms Oct 2015 #4
K&rr, I wondered why they were reporting on old news, then I saw and bah. uppityperson Oct 2015 #5
how to hit isis w0nderer Oct 2015 #7
Wow! Duppers Oct 2015 #17
oh i could do soooooo much here but du manners prevents me w0nderer Oct 2015 #18
Yep, on the jokes. :-D Duppers Oct 2015 #20
right w0nderer Oct 2015 #23
Go for it. Duppers Oct 2015 #24
oooh w0nderer Oct 2015 #25
I repeat Jack Rabbit Oct 2015 #8
+1,000 malaise Oct 2015 #9
Amen.... daleanime Oct 2015 #13
Zactly! Duppers Oct 2015 #16
War Hawks have little conscience it seems. This is horrifying. glinda Oct 2015 #12
Human life is apparently worth less today than in previous wars malaise Oct 2015 #14
We are expendable because of overpopulation and glinda Oct 2015 #15
Civilian Human lives rarely mattered to the US w0nderer Oct 2015 #19
Just the truth malaise Oct 2015 #21
yeah, horrible how we keep hammering that right? n/t w0nderer Oct 2015 #22
RE: Did you hear that another Doctors without Borders Hospital was bombed rockodman Oct 2015 #27
From Reader Supported News eridani Oct 2015 #28
The Saudis will soon understand reality as the oil money malaise Oct 2015 #29

Fred Sanders

(23,946 posts)
2. Besides vital aerial refuelling, what else is The Pentagon helping the Saudi terrorist nation with,
Tue Oct 27, 2015, 07:39 PM
Oct 2015

aside from the already supplied planes and missiles? After all, they are experts in strafing and bombing and killing innocents in well known hospitals.

MerryBlooms

(11,769 posts)
4. Yes, it showed up on my FB news feed. :(
Tue Oct 27, 2015, 07:43 PM
Oct 2015

I don't trust the Saudi government any further than I could throw 'em... but I'm not loving the shit our government is pulling either.

w0nderer

(1,937 posts)
7. how to hit isis
Tue Oct 27, 2015, 09:04 PM
Oct 2015

mark them as 'doctors without borders hospital'

self quote from
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1014&pid=1243996

once, mistake
twice, trend
thrice, clear pattern (stolen bullwinkle428 same thread)

w0nderer

(1,937 posts)
18. oh i could do soooooo much here but du manners prevents me
Tue Oct 27, 2015, 10:06 PM
Oct 2015

man the jokes i could make on that one though!

i call it 'learning from history' and paying attention at civics/current history

i know..rare nowadays right?



Duppers

(28,120 posts)
20. Yep, on the jokes. :-D
Tue Oct 27, 2015, 10:14 PM
Oct 2015

I didn't expect a repeat of such a mistaken (? on purpose) bombing, at least not this soon.

w0nderer

(1,937 posts)
23. right
Tue Oct 27, 2015, 10:43 PM
Oct 2015

at least if you want deniable plausibility leave a few days at least

still racking up jokes from that line and original posters line

daym i need to sit down comedy some and get paid for it!

malaise

(268,976 posts)
14. Human life is apparently worth less today than in previous wars
Tue Oct 27, 2015, 09:48 PM
Oct 2015

where hospitals were off limits. History will not be kind to these war criminals.

glinda

(14,807 posts)
15. We are expendable because of overpopulation and
Tue Oct 27, 2015, 09:50 PM
Oct 2015

all of the blood and gore exposure in the media of all types. It is desensitizing. It is meant to be.

w0nderer

(1,937 posts)
19. Civilian Human lives rarely mattered to the US
Tue Oct 27, 2015, 10:12 PM
Oct 2015
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firebombing
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firestorm

1/ winners write history
2/ during wwII no German, French or RED CROSS hospitals were hit by US forces or allied forces (although us airforce is specifically pointed out in many cases as 'causative agents of firestorms'
3/ did you not understand 1?

rockodman

(20 posts)
27. RE: Did you hear that another Doctors without Borders Hospital was bombed
Wed Oct 28, 2015, 01:42 AM
Oct 2015

Once is happenstance.
Twice is coincidence.
Three times is enemy action.
George Patton

eridani

(51,907 posts)
28. From Reader Supported News
Wed Oct 28, 2015, 07:20 AM
Oct 2015

Ain't they a great "ally" ccompared to Iran?

http://readersupportednews.org/news-section2/318-66/33174-saudi-airstrikes-in-yemen-hit-doctors-without-borders-hospital

The Saudi-led Arab campaign aims to undermine the popular Houthi Ansarullah movement and restore power to fugitive former Yemeni President Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi, an ally of Riyadh, but the civilian death toll has escalated since then, alarming the United Nations and human rights groups.

The Houthis, whose name means "Supporters of God," follow a similar ideology to Lebanon's resistance movement Hezbollah and played a prominent role during the ousting of dictator Ali Abdullah Saleh in 2011. They have since captured several cities, including capital Sanaa.

The Saudi airstrikes have constantly targeted civilians, earlier this month an aircraft hit a wedding ceremony killing at least 30 people and leaving dozens injured and in late September, fighter jets struck another ceremony killing more than 135 people, many of them women and children.

A hospital run by Swiss organization Doctors Without Borders in the northern Yemeni city of Saada was bombed Tuesday in a Saudi-led air strike, wrecking the facility and wounding several people, officials reported.

malaise

(268,976 posts)
29. The Saudis will soon understand reality as the oil money
Wed Oct 28, 2015, 09:26 AM
Oct 2015

dries up. Fugg those war criminals.
Doctors without Borders is French not Swiss - not that it matters.

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