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Afghans ‘Thought The End Of The World Had Come’ After MOAB Strike
dailycaller.com/reuters ^ | 4/14/17 | Saagar Enjeti

Posted on 04/14/2017 9:56:23 AM PDT by ColdOne

Chaos erupted after the U.S. dropped the largest non-nuclear bomb in its arsenal on an Islamic State training camp in Afghanistan Thursday, local villagers told The Guardian.

The bomb was dropped on Achin district in Nangarhar province, the long-time home of the terrorist group in Afghanistan. ISIS has proven resilient in Afghanistan, often using Nangarhar province to launch attacks on the capital of Kabul. The U.S. said the massive bomb, nicknamed the “mother of all bombs,” was requested to destroy ISIS’s extensive tunnel network in the village.

“The earth felt like a boat in a storm,” one villager told The Guardian. He continued, “My ears were deaf for a while. My windows and doors are broken. There are cracks in the walls.” Achin’s Mayor Naweed Shinwari said “my relatives thought the end of the world had come.”

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: afghanistan; moab
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Hehehehehe!!
1 posted on 04/14/2017 9:56:23 AM PDT by ColdOne
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To: ColdOne

Well, I guess it did, for some.


2 posted on 04/14/2017 9:57:51 AM PDT by JudyinCanada
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To: ColdOne

They should have wrote the name “mo-ham-head” on it.


3 posted on 04/14/2017 9:58:15 AM PDT by castlegreyskull
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To: ColdOne

second largest non-nuclear bomb


4 posted on 04/14/2017 9:58:37 AM PDT by bobrlbob
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To: ColdOne

It’s not often we can kill plenty of enemy fighters and give them an instant funeral at the same time. You’re welcome.


5 posted on 04/14/2017 9:58:41 AM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult
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To: ColdOne

For many of those raghead monsters it was the end of the world, god willing.


6 posted on 04/14/2017 9:58:56 AM PDT by sipow
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To: ColdOne

Good

Pay attention


7 posted on 04/14/2017 9:59:31 AM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: ColdOne

For some, it was!.................


8 posted on 04/14/2017 10:00:35 AM PDT by Red Badger (Ending a sentence with a preposition is nothing to be afraid of........)
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To: Red Badger

They should drop 2. Reminds them of Nagasaki.


9 posted on 04/14/2017 10:01:29 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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To: ColdOne

Awesome! I’d like to see some more of these types of strikes.


10 posted on 04/14/2017 10:02:09 AM PDT by alicewonders
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To: DIRTYSECRET

They should have sent in an AC-130 Specter gunship to mop up the leftovers.................


11 posted on 04/14/2017 10:02:57 AM PDT by Red Badger (Ending a sentence with a preposition is nothing to be afraid of........)
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To: ColdOne

They keep ISIS terrorists out of their village, or they can find out what the end of the world looks like . . . with a front row seat.


12 posted on 04/14/2017 10:03:34 AM PDT by Pollster1 ("Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed")
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To: ColdOne

Did you hear that America had an election?

Obama is out which is NOT good news for freedom-hating, tunnel dwelling, ISIS terrorists.


13 posted on 04/14/2017 10:03:40 AM PDT by mad puppy (E PLURIBUS UNUM)
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To: ColdOne

Nice having a CIC that says “go right ahead” when asked “can we blow stuff up and kill some of the enemy?”!!!!


14 posted on 04/14/2017 10:03:50 AM PDT by jdsteel (Give me freedom, not more government.)
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To: ColdOne

Remember the old 1965 movie MIRAGE, with Gregory Peck? The ending is that he had been working on a bomb that did not have radiation, but did the same amount of destruction.

I think we have it.


15 posted on 04/14/2017 10:04:06 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar ("You know Caligula?" --- "Worse! Caligula knows me!")
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To: sipow

They don’t wear rags on their heads.

They are sheets.


16 posted on 04/14/2017 10:05:45 AM PDT by Dan(9698)
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To: ColdOne
“The earth felt like a boat in a storm,” one villager told The Guardian.

Interesting analogy from someone that has probably never seen more water than what flows in a seasonally flooded wadi.

17 posted on 04/14/2017 10:06:15 AM PDT by fso301
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To: ColdOne

18 posted on 04/14/2017 10:06:53 AM PDT by Bratch ("The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." - Edmund Burke)
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To: castlegreyskull
They should have wrote the name “mo-ham-head” on it.

Who's to say they didn't?

19 posted on 04/14/2017 10:08:18 AM PDT by FourtySeven (47)
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>> “Who’s to say they didn’t?” <<

True!

Bomber crews often write messages on the bombs.

Only Yehova gets to read them though.


20 posted on 04/14/2017 10:11:44 AM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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