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To: Envisioning; momincombatboots; All

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?


800 Isis fighters does not mean that there were 800 within the blast radius. 700 of them might have been elsewhere in Afghanistan.

100 out of 800 is 12.5% (you might want to check your math).

From the article:

“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.”

600 to 800 *in Afghanistan*, most in Nangarhar (a big place, an entire province, almost 3,000 square miles).

We do not know how many were inside the blast radius of the MOAB.


48 posted on 04/18/2017 7:29:10 AM PDT by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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To: marktwain

12 percent is a miss.


50 posted on 04/18/2017 7:45:35 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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