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U.S. Unleashes Biggest Bomb on Al Qaeda Caves
Reuters ^
| 12/10/01
Posted on 12/10/2001 9:08:38 AM PST by dead
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States for the third time in the Afghan conflict has unleashed its most lethal ``daisy cutter'' bomb, aiming at caves where senior al Qaeda leaders, including possibly Osama bin Laden (news - web sites), were believed to be hiding out, the Pentagon (news - web sites) said on Monday.
The 15,000 pound bomb was dropped in the Tora Bora area at the weekend and fighting is still so intense in the region that the U.S. military has been unable to determine what damage was wreaked, Navy Rear Admiral John Stufflebeem told a news briefing.
``There is a psychological effect of having ammunition of 15,000 pounds of explosive capability that's brought into a very narrowly-defined area,'' said Stufflebeem, a senior official on the U.S. military's Joint Staff.
``This cave complex is literally on the sheer walls of a valley and there the reverberation effect that goes up in those caves should have some sort of negative effect,'' he said.
The bomb was dropped ``at a cave target ... it was believed that that's where some substantial al Qaeda forces would be, and possibly including senior leadership,'' he said, adding it was not known if those leaders might have included bin Laden.
TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: talibanlist
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posted on
12/10/2001 9:08:38 AM PST
by
dead
To: dead
BOOM bump!
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posted on
12/10/2001 9:10:32 AM PST
by
znix
To: dead
Did the earth move for you too?
Comment #4 Removed by Moderator
To: dead
"When you care enough to send the very best..."
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posted on
12/10/2001 9:13:54 AM PST
by
Redcloak
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To: dead
Let's hope that Osama will soon be pushing up daisies.
To: right_to_defend
I heard Clinton DOD did not restock the best weapon
The Air Fuel Bombs for bunkers F***** Clinton
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posted on
12/10/2001 9:14:53 AM PST
by
scooby321
"Boom, boom, boom....let's go back to my room." 80's trash disco flashback.
To: dead
I want the Second Amendment to entitle me to a few of those babies, I got some enemies to call on with 'em...
To: dead
Photo of a "small" one.
BAWOOM
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posted on
12/10/2001 9:19:19 AM PST
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mdittmar
To: dead
Let's hope that there was nothing left of OBL but a few teeth so we know for sure that we got him. This kind of throws a wrench into his TV suicide plan.
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posted on
12/10/2001 9:19:27 AM PST
by
Mixer
To: scooby321
I heard Clinton DOD did not restock the best weapon
Link Here
To: dead
the reverberation effect that goes up in those caves should have some sort of negative effect,'' he said. That is a beautifully understated comment. Translation: "That bomb should have them wetting their pants."
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posted on
12/10/2001 9:24:24 AM PST
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OK
To: dead
should have some sort of negative effectVery funny.
To: dead
U.S. Unleashes Biggest Bomb on Al Qaeda Caves They dropped the junior Senator from NY?
To: mdittmar
I read somewhere that these things have to be shoved out of the cargo bay of a C130 and make a crater about 5 football fields wide. Is that really true?
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posted on
12/10/2001 9:30:01 AM PST
by
Severa
To: scooby321
Fireball of flaming bacon grease (fuel-air mixture exploding missile packed with lard and bacon drippings)
Fatwaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhh!
Remember what Britain's Tony Blair declared early on? "The Taliban are about to take a pounding."
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posted on
12/10/2001 9:35:17 AM PST
by
ppaul
To: dead
Can anyone comment on what it would be like to be in the vicinity when one of these bombs hit? Is it worse than a severe earthquake, for example?
To: Severa
True.
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12/10/2001 9:35:53 AM PST
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ppaul
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