U.S. Drops Thermobaric Bomb on Afghan Caves

FOX News Alert ^ | March 2, 2002 | Diane Diamond

[codebreaker]

Developing..new weapon system has been used

[codebreaker]

I wonder if the bomb has some sort of propulsion device to 'skip' down the cave pathways when it is laser delivered by the F-15.

It passed that fast-track December test in Nevada and went straight to the battlefield.

[cake_crumb]

"Isn't this another name for a fuel air explosive?"

Yes it is <VBG>

[Dog]

MSNBC just said that info from Pentagon sources are saying that there COULD be Al-Qeada leaders in this fight..

Told you all that something big was in those caves.

[blam]

"It passed that fast-track December test in Nevada and went straight to the battlefield."

"Those Americans sure are inventive."

[theDentist]

"In darkness there is death. "
-Eric Lustbader "The Ninja"

[codebreaker]

This remote mountain area is the only passageway left from Pakistan to Afghanistan, and the Al Qaeda leaders may have been using it.

[jackbill]

That Russian thingie sounds like a fart-in-the-wind compared to a 2000 lb. guided BLU-118B

[AgentEcho]

Is this the same area that the battles have been going on? If so it sounds like our guys were just herding the enemy into a nice little target area. GET ALONG L'IL TALIBAN... YEEEEHHAAAAAA!!!!!

[blam]

MSNBC just showed the Thermabaric(sp) bomb explosion from the aircraft video. BOOM!

[glm]

yea! LackeyBast*ards!

[glm]

sorry == I mistyped - should be LackeyBistards

[cake_crumb]

"That Russian thingie sounds like a fart-in-the-wind compared to a 2000 lb. guided BLU-118B"

YEAH MAN!!

Uncontrollable urge to start chanting "Rufe, rufe, rufe, rufe!!" here...

[codebreaker]

I saw it and it looked messy..CNN hasn't figured out that it happened yet.

[steveegg]

She keeps saying its dark over there now .....so the fighting has stopped.....

The fighting HAS stopped; the hunting, though, has just begun <VBG>. Al-Qaida season is still open, and they're running out of places to hide.

[Libertarian_4_eva]

I heard tales of Iraqi conscripts being found of the side of the road with their lungs being pulled out of their bodies from the pressure of the older type weapon systems like this.

[Shermy]

[machman]

What we do in life.. Echoes in Eternity

You know, dirt cleans off a lot easier than blood

Ultimately, we're all dead men, sadly we cannot choose how, but we can decide how we meet that end in order that we are remembered as men.

We mortals are but shadows and dust.

I knew a man who once said death smiles at us all. All a man can do is smile back

I am required to kill, so I kill. That is enough.

My name is Maximus Decimus Meridius: commander of the armies of the North, general of the Felix legions, loyal servant to the true emperor, Marcus Aurelius. Father to a murdered son, husband to a murdered wife, and I will have my vengeance, in this life or the next.

The time for honoring yourself will soon be at an end

Strength and Honor

Some of my other favorite Gladiator quotes.

[Dog]

CNN is clueless today ....the biggest fight of the war is taking place and they ran a bio on REBA McIntrie......no wonder there in the tank ratings wise......:-)

[steveegg]

Only the best and the brightest get the one-test-to-success treatment :)

[My Favorite Headache]

Golf Courses in Afghanistan? Or are they just bombing in Davie,Florida again?