U.S. Unleashes Biggest Bomb on Al Qaeda Caves

Reuters ^ | 12/10/01

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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.

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BOOM bump!

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Did the earth move for you too?

[Redcloak]

"When you care enough to send the very best..."

[choicenotecho]

Let's hope that Osama will soon be pushing up daisies.

[scooby321]

I heard Clinton DOD did not restock the best weapon

The Air Fuel Bombs for bunkers F***** Clinton

[Diddle E. Squat]

"Boom, boom, boom....let's go back to my room." 80's trash disco flashback.

[StoneColdGOP]

I want the Second Amendment to entitle me to a few of those babies, I got some enemies to call on with 'em...

[mdittmar]

Photo of a "small" one.

BAWOOM

[Mixer]

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.

[Fiddlstix]

I heard Clinton DOD did not restock the best weapon

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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."

[VRWC_minion]

should have some sort of negative effect

Very funny.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

U.S. Unleashes Biggest Bomb on Al Qaeda Caves

They dropped the junior Senator from NY?

[Severa]

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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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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[NittanyLion]

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?

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True.