Posted on 04/15/2017 4:59:41 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Afghan officials say at least 90 Islamic State fighters were killed when the US dropped the "mother of all bombs" in Afghanistan - although IS has denied suffering any casualties.
IS issued a statement through its propaganda agency Amaq, saying: "Security source to Amaq agency denies any dead or wounded from yesterday's American strike in Nangarhar using a GBU-43/B."
The bombing left villagers terrified on both sides of the Afghan-Pakistani border.
In the Afghan village of Achin, just a few miles from where the bomb hit, Palstar Khan said: "Last night's bomb was really huge, when it dropped, everywhere, it was shaking."
Some in Pakistan said the explosion was so loud they thought a bomb had been dropped in their village.
"I was sleeping when we heard a loud explosion. It was an earsplitting blast," said Shah Wali, 46, who lives nine miles from the border.
"I jumped from my bed and came out of my home to see what has gone wrong in our village."
(Excerpt) Read more at news.sky.com ...
There most definitely were ISIS people in that area. I’m damn glad that none of our “forward observers” we not too close. (My grandson is one of them)
What a “missed opportunity”! Just think if Trump had dropped one smack dab in the middle of the No. Korea’s “fat boys” party demonstration, he could have wiped out the whole damn No. Korean leadership.
Fracking OPENS very small subterranean passages, props them open with sand grains and extracts the OIL.
MOAB CLOSES larger subterranean passages with large boulders, turns the inhabitants into GREASE spots and leaves them 'in situ'.
ISIS propagandists are real amateurs. They neglected to report that several infants died as a result of the bombing. Never forget to mention the children.
Number of thousands of women/children killed in 3-2-1...
What else are they gonna say? “Big bomb hurt bad.”
well, if they don’t work, drop another one!
Who is lying here? How do they know how many were killed? Are they sifting through the rubble counting shoes?
Ok. Guess we need to drop a few more.
90 DEAD X 72 VIRGINS = VERY GOOD FRIDAY
Death Toll From Massive US Bomb in Afghanistan Passes 90
Voice of America ^ | 4/15/17 | Ayesha Tanzeem
Posted on 4/15/2017, 7:42:19 AM by mac_truck
ISLAMABAD —
Afghan officials say the number of militants known to have been killed by a huge U.S. bomb Thursday has nearly tripled.
Officials say at least 92 militants died in the blast - up from 36 reported Friday. The area is still being cleared, so the death toll may increase.
There is no indication any civilians or military personnel were among the dead.
President Ashraf Ghani said Afghan and U.S. forces closely coordinated on the bombing, however his predecessor has strongly denounced the strike and the United States.
Former Afghan President Hamid Karzai said Saturday he is unleashing a campaign to force U.S. forces out of his country for dropping the so-called “mother of all bombs” on Afghan soil, cal
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No one killed eh...
Thanks for the info, we have a saying here in America: If at first you don’t succeed try, try again. We’ll Be Back!
BOOM BOOM BOOM, BOOM BOOM on and on like that, you will be eradicated, payback is a biotch. PISS BE UPON MOHAMHEAD and his perverted pusillanimous pissant loser obama, he can’t protect you anymore BE AFRAID VERY AFRAID... BOOM!
Maybe they knew who was in the caves and are now gone. I would think anyone near the target site would be dead, but possibly died differently?
ISIS would certainly lie no doubt.
I so happy that the President followed my advice.
Send no troops, just blow them up. If “ground needs to be held”...
Blow them up again.
At least 6,480 virgins gaining employment is a good thing
prayers for safety for your grandson and others there. Thankful for his service.
Now 94. Virgins employed at 6,768
When out on the roof there arose such a clatter,
I sprang from my bed to see what was the matter.
Away to the window I flew like a flash,
tore open the shutter, and threw up the sash.
Well, I guess that means we had better keep dropping them until we get one of those guys. LOL
Afghan officials: Nearly 100 ISIS jihadis, including four commanders, killed in MOAB strike
Hot Air ^ | April 15, 2017 | Allahpundit
Posted on 4/15/2017, 12:34:04 PM by 2ndDivisionVet
The estimate yesterday was 36 killed. Today it’s nearly tripled. Why? Probably because Afghan authorities not only have a much larger blast radius than usual to comb for bodies, but because the target was an ISIS tunnel complex. Who knows how many dead jihadis they’re still discovering underground.
“Our team is in the area and they are doing clearance, so the figure might change as they find more bodies,” said Dawlat Waziri, a spokesman for the Afghan Ministry of Defense…
Hamdullah Mohib, Afghanistan’s ambassador to the United States, said the colossal MOAB was dropped after fighting had intensified over the last week. US and Afghan forces had been unable to advance because ISIS — which has expanded into Afghanistan in recent years — had mined the area with explosives.
As was widely reported Thursday, the MOAB dates to the beginning of the Iraq war but was never used in combat until this week. You can understand why. The bigger the boom, the greater the chance of civilian deaths as collateral damage. Ideally you’d want to use it against a sizable concentration of enemy fighters located far away from population centers, a rare scenario during the war on terror given jihadi guerrilla tactics. But that’s the opportunity that presented itself this week; per CNN, 3,000 Afghan families had fled the area over the past year, leaving ISIS all alone.
The fact that tunnels were being targeted made the opportunity more attractive still. The pressure wave created by the MOAB is enormous, capable of penetrating the tunnels and creating cave-ins, and the giant fireball it creates burns up the oxygen, suffocating enemies inside. “It’s a way to get into areas where conventional bombs can’t reach,” said one expert. (For more strongly fortified underground facilities, the U.S. has the MOP.) If not for the MOAB, infantry would have had to fight their way past those tunnels.
And of course, as the Air Force acknowledges, the sheer magnitude of the explosion has “psychological effects.” The commander who ordered it had that in mind, according to a source who spoke to NBC: “[Gen.] Nicholson wanted to demonstrate to leaders of the ISIS affiliate in Afghanistan the seriousness of his determination to eliminate the group as a military threat.”
It may end up having “psychological effects” in Syria and North Korea too, although since it wasn’t Trump who ordered the bomb’s use, any deterrent effect on other American enemies in the White House’s crosshairs right now is a happy coincidence. Unfortunately, with a blast this size, there are also “psychological effects” on local Afghans. There were no civilians close enough to be injured by the explosion, but they were plenty close enough to have heard — and felt — it:
After his evening prayers, Mohammad Shahzadah closed the house gates and sat down for dinner. Then the blast came, engulfing the sky in flames and sending tremors through the ground.
“The earth felt like a boat in a storm,” Shahzadah said. “I thought my house was being bombed. Last year a drone strike targeted a house next to mine, but this time it felt like the heavens were falling. The children and women were very scared.”…
“My ears were deaf for a while. My windows and doors are broken. There are cracks in the walls,” he said.
His home is a mile and a half away from where the bomb detonated.
Naturally, with the U.S. showing off the size of its arsenal this week, Russia and its apologists are reminding the world via social media that they have a conventional bomb much bigger than even the MOAB. Meet … the Father of All Bombs. Don’t be surprised if we get to see that in Syria or Ukraine soon.
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