Posted on 04/19/2017 11:03:24 AM PDT by blam
A week after US forces dropped the 21,600-pound GBU-43/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast weapon, or so-called "Mother of All Bombs," on a remote part of Afghanistan, American officials have released little information about the strike or its aftermath, and security forces in the area continue to block access the site.
And alongside the dozens of Pakistanis thought to have been killed in the strike, 12 Tajikistanis and 13 Indian nationals who had joined ISIS were killed, according to TOLO news.
A security official told Hindustan Times that 13 ISIS commanders were killed in the raid — at least two of them from India.
In a move reminiscent of Vietnam-era body-count assessments, Afghan officials have released estimates of the number of ISIS fighters killed in the MOAB strike, upping the total from 36 to 96 over the last six days.
Reports from the region indicate that a number of the ISIS fighters slain were drawn from neighboring countries.
An Afghan security source told the country's TOLO news agency that most of the militants killed in the bombing were members of Tehrik-e Taliban Pakistan (TTP) or of Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba.
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The anti-American propaganda from Big Media just never ends ...
Napolitano was quite irritating this morning on 550AM our conservative station...he said Trump had no good reason to do this, just puffing his chest, new sheriff in town, etc. Judge Nap I think is still a never Trump thorn.
As is Michael Medved.
Tell Mr. Woody that he’s the only one now allowed to do the body counts, so he can assure us of reliable numbers.
Just the Judge proving that Libertarianism ≠ Conservatism.
What a stupid thing to say. Every military operation has after-action assessments. The Vietnam body-count issue was that certain analysts pretended that it was an accurate measure of how the war was going. This has nothing to do with that.
It was my understanding that Trump gave the authority to his military to do whatever they think best. The generals thought “BOOM”.
Yeah well. It’s what they do. And not just a minority.
1st is little boys.
2nd is animals or masturbation or older boys.
3rd choice is women.
There is only one way to fix Afghanistan. It involves using the methods the Spanish used to get rid of the Moors. Or we could use a neutron bomb.
Otherwise - we need to get out. Now.
When you finally realized that almost everyone in the media, talking heads and radio show hosts are for themselves to be important, to be in front of a camera with all the liberal garbage, then you know they are not on the side of:
MAKING AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!
I don’t care if zero were killed. The bomb collapsed those tunnels...that’s a good enough objective.
“There will never be another ewe.”
Still no ground-level pics from the blast site?
Isn’t that the truth.
Judge Nap I think is still a never Trump thorn.
That gave him credibility with me in the GCHQ spying story.
If true that some of these ISIS guys were from India, we did India a big favor here. The death of the others was probably a big favor for several other nations.
I’d like to know the full story behind this strike, and how may actually did die.
I suspect it may be far more than a figure in the 90s.
It would seem like a bomb going off out front of a cave might cause a massive pressure wave to concentrate inside and kill everyone instantly.
Not volunteering for testing of that theory.
SFL
“Still no ground-level pics from the blast site?”
That is what I was hoping for - it’d be nice to see how effective it looked.
Take a closer look...those are too big to be sheep....at least what they’re doing to the animals at the end. Those look to be burros/donkeys
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