ISLAMABAD, Pakistan: WikiLeaks has offered a reward of $50,000 for any footage or cockpit audio from the US warplane that bombed a Doctors Without Borders hospital in the Afghan northern City of Kunduz.
“We are raising a $50,000 bounty to obtain the footage, the cockpit audio, the inquiry report and other relevant materials such as the Rules of Engagement active at the time,” Wikileaks wrote on its website.
US$50,000 Bounty for Kunduz Bombing Footage http://t.co/r0Z3pUFNiu @MSF
— WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) October 8, 2015
On October 3, a Doctors Without Borders hospital in Kunduz was repeatedly bombed by a US AC-130 gunship, leading to the deaths of 22 patients and staff.
“The AC-130 records its attacks with high resolution gun cameras,” Wikileaks said in its statement.
“According to military procedure, this footage should have been retained along with the cockpit audio. A post-massacre inquiry report referred to as an ‘AR 15-6’ should have also been commissioned.”
On Tuesday, in a hearing at the Senate Armed Services Committee in Congress, the US Army General John Campbell said that the deadly US air strike that hit the hospital in Kunduz ,was a mistake made within the US military’s chain of command.
John Campbell said that he has called on his forces to undergo training to review rules of engagement to prevent similar incidents. He pledged to launch an objective and transparent probe into the hospital bombing.
Meanwhile, the US President Barack Obama on Wednesday apologized to the head of Doctors Without Borders, whose staff and patients were killed and injured during the Saturday bombing.
The US president also pledged full cooperation with the joint investigations into the incident being conducted with the NATO and the Afghan government.
