Afghan hospital airstrike a 'mistake'

(ANSA) - Rome, October 6 - The American attack on a hospital at Kunduz in northern Afghanistan that killed 22 occurred despite "rigorous" U.S. military procedures designed to avoid such mistakes, the top commander of U.S. and allied forces in Afghanistan said Tuesday.
    General John F. Campbell also told a Senate committee that he thinks President Barack Obama should revise the current plan to reduce the U.S. force in Afghanistan at the end of 2016. The plan calls for cutting the force from 9,800 to about 1,000 embassy-based security.