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Wrong target. this kind of stuff happens in war but you need to find out why. theres a lot of different reasons. we need to discover which one led to this bombs hitting this particular target. >> was this hospital a taliban base? >> oh, we dont know yet. obviously the afghan government is saying that they had information. the fact that one airplane supposedly hit the same building five times tells you it was actually the target. now, how did it become the target? did somebody have the wrong coor...

But you have to remember we have advanced technologies to be able to allow us to see things on top of these roofs and buildings that other people cannot see with the naked eye. >> should we not know, rusty, should we not know of a hospitals coordinates? >> a couple things. number one, yes, we should have. but people are not thinking about things that are obvious. number one, the complete retro grade of u.s. forces that are there does not allow us to track nongovernmental organizations that are i...

Hospital. those who died were probably burnt in their beds actually. this part of the hospital caught fire. >> they were burnt in their beds? i cant imagine the panic and confusion in the middle of the night for people who found themselves under attack. >> yeah. it was an absolutely dreadful scene. and this is a hospital thats been in kunduz and the conflict around kunduz started four or five days. it was packed. there were over 100 patients. our staff was in the hospital as well and there was c...

Previously told all parties the hospitals exact location. earlier we spoke with christopher stokes, the general director of the aid group about the attack. take a listen. >> it was an absolutely dreadful scene. this is a hospital thats been in kunduz and the conflict really around kunduz started four or five days. it was packed. there was over 100 patients. our staff was in the hospital as well and there was complete chaos. this is really is complete breech of humanitarian law. we sent the coord...

I was told they were given the exact coordinates to nato and the afghan military of defense. its quite unbelievable for a lot of people here how an incident like this could happen. the compound is a big compound. its several soccer fields large. and well known to everybody in the area. >> all right. absolutely tragic. nine now dead. lets go to nic robertson. obviously the battle for the city has been going on for days. the taliban initially said this was their biggest victory in 15 years. give u...

>> reporter: what im hearing as well not only that the bombing continued for 30 minute after officials were amadmade aware t the attack was going on. but they shared the exact coordinates with hospital authorities and u.s. military and with nato. thats also the story here. u.s. military do -- as they confirm that they conducted an air strike here and might have caused collateral damage, as they say. but we dont have any indications, any other air strikes and all officials s is kunduz said this w...

To spontaneous protests to the possibility of a terror attack. >> this aircraft is also equipped with radiological detection equipment. so we can do aerial surveys or radiological materials that may be out there. and we fly background checks around the city on a regular basis, and we fly several days before the event as well as during the event to ensure that theres no dirty bomb out there or moving around. >> reporter: these images are transmitted back to the joint operations center at police h...

The unloading gates. >> akram is in the security business, a thriving industry here, as you could probably imagine. a lot of things happened in a lot of different parts of the country sort of simultaneously. kind of amazing that all of these people came together very fast. >> how did it happen? >> yeah. >> easy, twitter. >> twitter? >> yeah. >> it was really like that? >> yes. we sent so much information to nato via twitter. we get a phone call from tripoli or benghazi or whatever. we get the co...

Theology. two weeks ago i was on the aircraft carrier to theater in persian gulf and i was there reporting on the air strikes. these guys were taking over from that carrier 20 to 25 strikes a day. and a lot of them were coming back at night, after these 6 1/2 to 7-hour flights with their weapons still intact because they dont have enough iraqi security forces -- >> they dont get the coordinates. >> -- on the ground to get the coordinates. you see this incredible array of american super power wea...

>> coordinates shift meant that the airplane was over a place that the pilots didnt understand. clearly the pilots couldnt see the mountain, or they would have flown around it. >> in june 1980, the office of air accidents releases its findings, known as the chippendale report. it cites pilot error for flying at low level in an area of poor visibility when the crew was uncertain about their position. but in april 1981, a parliamentary investigation known as the mann report absolves pilots from an...