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Huge explosion hits front lines north of Kabul
The Associated Press ^
| 10/30/2001 5:20 am ET
| The Associated Press
Posted on 10/30/2001 2:14:26 AM PST by mdittmar
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To: Movemout
What type of aircraft would deliver this type of "bomb"?
To: Movemout
Wasn't it also reported to have caused some seismic activity when it was dropped in the Gulf War? I thought I remembered reading something about it, and how far away the troops were able to feel it via ground rumblings. Just curious, as I didn't see any mention of it during the original article. Figured if the press wanted to scream about it, they would have included that part.
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posted on
10/30/2001 3:10:32 AM PST
by
zandtar
To: sausageseller
I'm not an expert but I believe just about any a/c that can carry it can deliver it. That would include helicopters.
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posted on
10/30/2001 3:10:55 AM PST
by
Movemout
To: mdittmar
The fox news reporter on the Northern Alliance front lines just reported having seen about 7 such explosions...described as very loud and air=cracking explosions followed by mushroom cloud. He said that area of the Taliban front lines has been hit very hard, and while he is unable to get close enough to see the damage, he is imagining that the landscape must have been very disturbed. I would think, at least! and....might I add....at last!
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posted on
10/30/2001 3:12:01 AM PST
by
MistyCA
To: Movemout
In Desert Storm, SPECOPS C-130s dropped 15K "Daisy Cutters". Mushroom cloud and blast were so big, Iraqis checked area with geiger counters, suspecting that it was a small nuke. Big psychological impact causing Iraqis to lite up a lot of equipment. They all had to talk about it. See following: "Days before the start of the ground war, the forces began dropping 15,000 pound 'Daisy Cutter' bombs on Iraqi troops from the back of C-130 transport planes.... Terrified Iraqis were certain that the devastating explosion signaled the beginning of the ground war, and turned on their air-defense radars all along the boarder. American pilots pinpointed many air-defense installations they never new existed. Says one Pentagon official, 'We were able to 'paint' every radar electronically and knock them out.'"
To: zandtar
You read my post at #3. The explosion was sufficiently impressive that a number of experienced military personnel were convinced that a tactical nuclear device had been detonated.
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posted on
10/30/2001 3:13:06 AM PST
by
Movemout
To: redwolf00
interesting!!!
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posted on
10/30/2001 3:14:05 AM PST
by
SunnyUsa
To: Clinton's a rapist; Clinton's a liar; MJY1288; mtngrl@vrwc; 68-69TonkinGulfYatchClub
FAE fans, pinging.
To: patriciaruth
I really hope the Taliban are not reading this.
To: Movemout
If the explosion was that impressive their eyeballs would have melted out of the sockets. If it was a nuclear explosion there would be no one standing around debating what it was. Nuclear explosions don't leave much room for doubt. You know right away what it is.
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posted on
10/30/2001 3:19:49 AM PST
by
12B
To: Sir Francis Dashwood
FAE = Fuel laden 767 slamming into WTC/Pentagon.
To: mdittmar
Eye witness report from on-site reporter 1 1/2 miles from point of impact who witnessed it stats that it was a series of 7 bombs, one closely following after another and in very close proximity to one another.
Indications are that they were dropped by a single plane flying so high that it couldn't be seen. This sounds like a series of FAE bombs so close together that they formed a massive cloud.
They were dropped right on the Taliban front line, apparently not on bunkers or buildings, but on the opposing troops themselves.
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posted on
10/30/2001 3:23:15 AM PST
by
dglang
To: 12B
"...Nuclear explosions don't leave much room for doubt. ..."
I feel the same way.
If you have to ask,"Hey, was that a nuke?"
Then it wasn't.
If it was a nuke, you would say, "HEY, THAT WAS A NUKE !"
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posted on
10/30/2001 3:23:36 AM PST
by
error99
To: redwolf00
Reading that we have FAE fans in the U.S.?
or reading this?
"God help any one who lies under that."
To: error99
If it was a nuke, there would be no one nearby able to ask what it was.
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posted on
10/30/2001 3:27:38 AM PST
by
dglang
To: 12B
Could be that you are right. I have never witnessed a nuclear explosion although I have talked to people who have. A tactical nuke detonated from a distance versus a FAE detonated somewhat closer may be a difficult call to make if you are caught by surprise. I wouldn't confuse a city buster with a tactical device. There is a world of difference.
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posted on
10/30/2001 3:28:05 AM PST
by
Movemout
To: error99
When I was young I used to hear things in the woods which I mistook for a rattle-snake. One day I heard the real thing in a timber-pile. There was no room for doubt!
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posted on
10/30/2001 3:29:03 AM PST
by
12B
To: mdittmar
Daisy Cutter = 15,000-25,000lbs bombs dropped out of the back of a AC-130U.
The DC was initially used in Vietnam to clear helicopter landing fields in the jungle. It also had the effect of making a BIG BAD BOOM.
FAE = fuel air explosive designed to kill/destroy by overpressure.
Interesting to note that the afterexplosive shock of a FAE will suck the air out your chest if you're close enough.
It'll do the same thing to a cave dweller.
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posted on
10/30/2001 3:29:06 AM PST
by
PokeyJoe
To: mdittmar
The nature of the blast cannot be determined. The latest styatement is that the blast was a suicide bomber instructing the rest of he cell on how to use the device. He said he was only going to show them ONCE.
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posted on
10/30/2001 3:29:45 AM PST
by
Henchman
To: patriciaruth
Reading that we have FAE fans in the U.S.? You misread these people.
There are no FAE fans here...there are only fans of American Victory.
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posted on
10/30/2001 3:31:21 AM PST
by
copycat
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