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US says nearly 800 ISIS members on ground when ‘Mother of All Bombs’ dropped
New York Post ^ | 4/13/2017 | Bob Frederic

Posted on 04/17/2017 9:45:50 PM PDT by hotdogjones

The United States on Thursday dropped the most powerful non-nuclear bomb in its arsenal on an ISIS stronghold in Afghanistan — a strike President Trump hailed as “very, very successful.”

The US estimates that 600 to 800 ISIS terrorists were on the ground in Afghanistan, mostly in Nangarhar, conducting strikes on government and US forces while battling the rival Taliban.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: afghanistan; isismoab; moab
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To: arrogantsob

“ISIS was fighting the Taliban?”

They were fighting with al Queda too. They broke off from al Queda a few years ago in a disagreement over tactics, strategy, and who would be boss. They have competed and fought with each other for three or four years, but it looks like ISIS may have to fold back into al Queda this year, when they lose their territory, and have to go covert.

Anybody who tries to muscle in to Afghanistan will have to fight the Taliban. That term has been extended beyond just the original Pakistani surrogates, to cover just about all the loosely aligned Pashtun tribesmen who are engaged in illegal activity (half of Afghanistan’s GDP is from opium poppy - they produce about 90% of the world’s heroin). Most of the Pashtun countryside has powerful gangs who don’t want interference from any Government or outsiders.

For all their downsides, they are not fearful people - they won’t take much crap from anyone.


21 posted on 04/18/2017 12:10:10 AM PDT by BeauBo
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To: Fungi

Thank you for succinctly saying exactly how I feel/think about that sand box. Unless there’s an absolute need for an American to be there; it should just be considered a no man’s land.

Just leave it alone. Who knows, if the rest of the world ends up blowing itself up to extinction, maybe that rat hole with its caveman mentality will survive and continue the human race such as it is. Not really sure it would be much better than if no one survived but at least someone might live to tell the story of how we ended life as we know it on this big blue marble. Their hard and backward ways without running water or electricity may be exactly what saves them. Who are we to tell them they must change. Just leave them alone as you said.


22 posted on 04/18/2017 12:31:17 AM PDT by Boomer (The MSM and Radicalized Dem Party are One and the SAME!)
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To: Fungi

I keep asking - what’s the mission in 2017? There does not seem to be one.


23 posted on 04/18/2017 12:46:30 AM PDT by llevrok (A group of baboons is called a "congress." Just sayin' .....)
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To: hotdogjones

I think the bombs should be filled with pork products, to ensure that the vanquished never receive their virgin girls and little boys in the afterlife.


24 posted on 04/18/2017 1:00:58 AM PDT by lbtbell
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To: hotdogjones

I love the number climbing up. This is winning.


25 posted on 04/18/2017 1:08:12 AM PDT by jacknhoo (Luke 12:51; Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation.)
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To: hotdogjones

My friends in Kabul say that this bomb really changed things.

It’s as though they just cut off the snakes head. There was much more to this than a few Taliban & ISIS.


26 posted on 04/18/2017 1:50:29 AM PDT by tired&retired (Blessings)
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To: Fungi
“When you're lying and bleeding on Afghanistan's plains/ and the women come out to carve up what remains/ roll over to your rifle and blow out your brains/and go to your God a soldier''.- Kipling.
27 posted on 04/18/2017 2:58:30 AM PDT by jmacusa (Dad may be in charge but mom knows whats going on.)
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To: BenLurkin

“And they forgot to bring children to *H*ide behind? How did we manage that?”

So okay that is how it works when you do not telegraph the attack. The modus operandi is clear and repeatable. When they hear there’s going to be an attack they will surround themselves with Women and Children and claim it’s a big Wedding. If your OpSec is solid then you don’t have this problem. They’re busy with their Goats and Gun grease when suddenly they become toasted. They didn’t even have time to prep for the jihad.

The whitehouse in the past Obama admin was full of Islamic agents so there was 20 different ways that the signal would go out into the wild telegraphing an attack. So every time an attack was coming they would turn their operational planning meeting into a big Islamic wedding party complete with armed guards and children playing with candy flowers. Donald Trump closed that door and now look we have a successful operation finally. Let the military do their job without Johnson style whitehouse micromanagement.


28 posted on 04/18/2017 3:00:19 AM PDT by Samurai_Jack (War is cruelty, there is no use trying to reform it; the crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.)
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To: hotdogjones

most were vaporized beyond any recovery of remains


29 posted on 04/18/2017 3:30:04 AM PDT by LeoWindhorse (America First !)
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To: hotdogjones

For later good news.


30 posted on 04/18/2017 3:34:33 AM PDT by Envisioning (Trump is imposing the people's will on it's government......)
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To: BeauBo

Is that Barry Gibb in the photo?


31 posted on 04/18/2017 4:02:19 AM PDT by donozark (Lock HER up! Lock HIM up! Kick 'em out! Build the wall! GO TRUMP!!)
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To: prophetic
Next target Islamabad?

Probably not a great idea.

Pakistan has about 130 nuclear bombs. There are many in the ISI who would love to slip some of those to the various Jihadist groups around the globe.

32 posted on 04/18/2017 4:07:58 AM PDT by BwanaNdege ("The church ... is not the master or the servant of the state, but the conscience" - Luther)
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To: donozark

. . . and Jeff Lynne on the right?


33 posted on 04/18/2017 4:35:39 AM PDT by Oratam
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To: hotdogjones

But only 90 killed?


34 posted on 04/18/2017 4:39:12 AM PDT by stuck_in_new_orleans
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To: jennychase
Considering the temperature after explosion is approx. 5400 degrees F, I'd say a lot of evidence destroyed. Dismemberment would reduce size of material to be consumed. Kinda like kindling vs. night log.

As a point of reference, temperature inside modern crematorium is 1400-1800 degrees.

35 posted on 04/18/2017 4:48:03 AM PDT by donozark (Lock HER up! Lock HIM up! Kick 'em out! Build the wall! GO TRUMP!!)
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To: Oratam

Had to Google Lynne, but yes it does look like him. How odd...


36 posted on 04/18/2017 4:51:07 AM PDT by donozark (Lock HER up! Lock HIM up! Kick 'em out! Build the wall! GO TRUMP!!)
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To: hotdogjones

Micro - seconds after, parts of them were flying about in the air. HAHAHAHAAAAAAA.


37 posted on 04/18/2017 5:08:40 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation camp?)
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To: BeauBo

Should have been an album cover.


38 posted on 04/18/2017 5:11:44 AM PDT by Rebelbase (Deportation mayhem is just birthing pains for a new America.)
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To: hotdogjones

So there were 800 Isis fighters and we only killed around a hundred. The MOAB has a strike zone of a one mile radius... How could we only kill one percent? Did we miss? Sounds like a show of force with a 1percent impact. It made me hopeful we meant business.. now I am thinking they are laughing at our strike.


39 posted on 04/18/2017 5:31:21 AM PDT by momincombatboots (Gas attacks. Substitute Sadam for Assad and Iraq for Syria? How many American lives do you commit)
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To: hotdogjones

Best Hidden Nugget:

They are “battling the rival Taliban”.

If we play our cards right we can maneuver them into wiping each other out.


40 posted on 04/18/2017 5:51:05 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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