美国承认空袭阿富汗医院需负部分责任

AS IT IS 2015-10-07 US Accepts Blame for Afghan Hospital Attack 美国承认空袭阿富汗医院需负部分责任

A U.S. military commander says American forces are responsible for "mistakenly" hitting a hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan on Saturday.

The bombing killed 22 people.

Army General John Campbell told a congressional committee in Washington that Afghan forces requested the airstrike. The Afghan forces said Taliban fighters were firing from the hospital.

The hospital is operated by the international medical charity Doctors Without Borders, or Médecins Sans Frontières in French.

General Campbell said the U.S. led the raid after reviewing the request.

"To be clear, the decision to provide aerial fire was a U.S. decision made within the U.S. chain of command," Campbell said.  "A hospital was mistakenly struck.  We would never intentionally¹ target a protected medical facility."

General Campbell did not discuss additional details about the airstrike. U.S. and Afghan investigations² into the bombing continue.

At the White House, spokesman Josh Earnest called the bombing a "profound tragedy and something the United States takes very seriously."

The attack killed 12 workers and 10 patients of Doctors Without Borders.

The president of Doctors Without Borders, Joanne Liu, said that the attack "cannot be brushed aside as a mere³ mistake or an inevitable⁴ consequence of war."

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charity - n. an organization that helps people who are poor, sick, etc.

intentionally - adv. done in a way that is planned

profound - adj. very strongly felt

brush aside (phrasal verb) - to refuse to consider something seriously because you feel it is not important

1 intentionally   

ad.故意地，有意地

参考例句：

• I didn't say it intentionally. 我是无心说的。
• The local authority ruled that he had made himself intentionally homeless and was therefore not entitled to be rehoused. 当地政府裁定他是有意居无定所，因此没有资格再获得提供住房。

2 investigations   

（正式的）调查( investigation的名词复数 )； 侦查； 科学研究； 学术研究

参考例句：

• His investigations were intensive and thorough but revealed nothing. 他进行了深入彻底的调查，但没有发现什么。
• He often sent them out to make investigations. 他常常派他们出去作调查。

3 mere   

adj.纯粹的；仅仅，只不过

参考例句：

• That is a mere repetition of what you said before.那不过是重复了你以前讲的话。
• It's a mere waste of time waiting any longer.再等下去纯粹是浪费时间。

4 inevitable   

adj.不可避免的，必然发生的

参考例句：

• Mary was wearing her inevitable large hat.玛丽戴着她总是戴的那顶大帽子。
• The defeat had inevitable consequences for British policy.战败对英国政策不可避免地产生了影响。