Plans in place for Afghan bombing probe: IHFFC

A Swiss-based world body for investigating breaches of international humanitarian law says it has requested permission from the United States and Afghanistan – and already prepared an internal plan – for carrying out a confidential probe of the deadly US airstrikes on a medical charity's hospital in northern Afghanistan. The International Humanitarian Fact Finding Commission, or IHFFC, formally offered its “good offices” to those two countries and created a “draft agenda” on how it could immediately launch an investigation into the attack in Kunduz, Afghanistan, said Thilo Marauhn, a German expert on international law who is the first vice president of the commission based in the Swiss capital Bern. “So far, the IHFFC has sent letters to the US and to the Afghan government indicating that it is prepared to conduct an investigation should either of the two governments ask the commission to conduct such an investigation,” Marauhn told swissinfo.ch on Wednesday.