US says nearly 800 ISIS members on ground when ‘Mother of All Bombs’ dropped

New York Post ^ | 4/13/2017 | Bob Frederic

[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.

[deadrock]

A whirling dervish of flesh and bone. Let’s have more.

[soycd]

I know my opinion is already wrong with some...but here it is...

Drop the hammer on the majority of scum on Friday Night when they express their evil. Just do it ...

I think this may help ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mU1tgAtVMGk

[BenLurkin]

And they forgot to bring children to bide behind? How did we manage that?

[jennychase]

Lot of reports are saying Pakistanis are searching Bomb site to give final burial to their loved ones.
Cremation can’t be reversed.

[jennychase]

While US officials have upped their death count from the Afghan MOAB drop to 94, Indian authorities are claiming that at least 500 Pakistani nationals (who had been protecting the ISIS operatives in this area) were killed in the US bombing in Nangarhar province.

[353FMG]

Can we safely assume that 10% got hit?

How about 30% or even 50%? And how can we know the success rate?

[jennychase]

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-04-15/india-claims-500-pakistanis-protecting-isis-killed-treasonous-us-bombing-afghanistan

[jennychase]

[Covenantor]

Air drop a pallet of these and call it well done, halal style.

Send them home in a bag.

[dragonblustar]

The Gap Band- You Dropped The Bomb On Me.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=17lkdqoLt44

[rrrod]

Dead mussie salute

[Cowboy Bob]

Still no interviews with survivors...

[Fungi]

Afghanistan is a point of no return as everyone, and everything has has failed. After Russia tried annexing the country in the late seventies to no avail—with a little noncooperation from the US—as the communist state at the time lost tens of thousands of soldiers, the Brits and finally the US tried to tame a lawless, backward country, to no avail or success. Leave it alone; this country does not want any more than to be left alone, an Islamic rat hole intent on its observance of seventh century customs. It does not want to change, its history has shown it, its population, so long as it adheres to a false religion, tells us so. Stop wasting precious blood and money on an incorrigible rat hole infested with Islamic rats. Leave it alone to destroy itself or live by itself in its prehistoric ways, so happy with the ways of an epileptic false "prophet" named Mahomet.

[BeauBo]

Army Gen. John W. Nicholson, commander of US forces in Afghanistan, said in a statement that the strike was designed to minimize the risk to Afghan and US forces in the Achin area “while maximizing the destruction” of ISIS fighters and tunnels, bunkers and caves.

“This is the right munition to reduce these obstacles and maintain the momentum of our offensive against ISIS”

Separate reports indicated that ISIS had been laying landmines to protect their growing facility. This type of bomb also clears mines and booby traps very well. In addition to the ISIS jihadis killed, there is no doubt some number wounded, which will be a drag on the organization - including a bunch of brain injury and deafness.

Maybe they will have to head back to Pakistan for some time, to reconstitute whatever type of unit they were before that bomb dropped.

[prophetic]

Next target Islamabad?

[arrogantsob]

ISIS was fighting the Taliban? Who do you root for when the Predator takes on the Alien? Maybe we should have let them play some more.

[shanover]

We are back to war after the POS Kenyan of 8 years. Get ‘er done!

[onedoug]

It’s about time we WON one.

[BeauBo]

Kabul, the City of Gardens, in the early 1970's - before Communists overthrew the Government, Before the Khmer Rouge-like Khalqis overthrew those Communists, before little Afghanistan single-handedly fought the Third World War against the Soviet Union (for which the USA and NATO had prepared for decades) - and before the society was depleted by millions of refugees fleeing, leaving the country ruled by "Mad Max-like" gangs and militant warlords, and before Pakistan installed the medieval, Saudi-inspired Taliban rule over the remnants.

Before those epic disasters, arguably the worst circumstances endured by any nation in the 20th century, Afghanistan was kind of nice - a quiet, pastoral, relatively safe and often charming exotic getaway. Having sat out the World Wars and enjoyed a half century of peace, strong social institutions like family and tribe provided stable support to orderly communities.

Westerners would travel the "Hippie Trail" through the country in Volkswagens on their way to India, and lay up for a few weeks with a very affordable chunk of hashish, the size of their fist, and food so cheap it was almost free. The many mountain ranges of Afghanistan were popular with German tourists for long hikes and climbs, and better than 30% of the country was forested - much of it with extensive fruit and nut plantations (the Soviet invasion denuded the country-side, to less than 3% forest). In some places, the wild remnants of ancient plantations would cover thousands of acres of public lands, and people were free to harvest as much as they could haul.

American universities had partnerships with Afghan universities developing strong agricultural programs, and Afghanistan was ahead of India in the Green Revolution of improving yields with fertilizers and new varieties.

Afghanistan was Groovy Baby. Before 1973.