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Afghans ‘Thought The End Of The World Had Come’ After MOAB Strike
dailycaller.com/reuters ^ | 4/14/17 | Saagar Enjeti

Posted on 04/14/2017 9:56:23 AM PDT by ColdOne

Chaos erupted after the U.S. dropped the largest non-nuclear bomb in its arsenal on an Islamic State training camp in Afghanistan Thursday, local villagers told The Guardian.

The bomb was dropped on Achin district in Nangarhar province, the long-time home of the terrorist group in Afghanistan. ISIS has proven resilient in Afghanistan, often using Nangarhar province to launch attacks on the capital of Kabul. The U.S. said the massive bomb, nicknamed the “mother of all bombs,” was requested to destroy ISIS’s extensive tunnel network in the village.

“The earth felt like a boat in a storm,” one villager told The Guardian. He continued, “My ears were deaf for a while. My windows and doors are broken. There are cracks in the walls.” Achin’s Mayor Naweed Shinwari said “my relatives thought the end of the world had come.”

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: afghanistan; moab
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To: bobrlbob

Second? What is the first?


21 posted on 04/14/2017 10:11:58 AM PDT by ColdOne ((I miss my poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11~ Best Election Ever!)
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To: ColdOne
Naweed Shinwari said “my relatives thought the end of the world had come.”

No Naweed, it was just the The Donald.

22 posted on 04/14/2017 10:12:17 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: Hillarys Gate Cult

Cut us a BUNCH of daisies, there, we did.

This is the kind of “shock and awe” we SHOULD have been using, years ago.


23 posted on 04/14/2017 10:12:53 AM PDT by alloysteel (Some 95% of the personal woe in this world is self-induced.)
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To: Dan(9698)

Like the man said...Rag Heads....


24 posted on 04/14/2017 10:18:51 AM PDT by Herodes
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To: ColdOne

my relatives thought the end of the world had come”...?

It’s about time!


25 posted on 04/14/2017 10:26:34 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: alicewonders

I like to see them drop another one in a couple of days. Maybe NK?


26 posted on 04/14/2017 10:26:45 AM PDT by ColdOne ((I miss my poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11~ Best Election Ever!)
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To: fso301

Or a clue that this ‘villager’ is really an Arab fighter.


27 posted on 04/14/2017 10:27:09 AM PDT by lacrew
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To: Dan(9698)

;)


28 posted on 04/14/2017 10:31:01 AM PDT by aught-6
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To: jdsteel

Yes! The media are dying to ask him if he signed off on this or that, and he basically says, “They’re doing their job.”
It’s like they want to imply his signature is on every missile, MOAB, or shell.

What? No pamphlets dropped? No leaking to the bad guys before the MOAB dropped, or 6 weeks advance warning? Who does the CiC think he is?


29 posted on 04/14/2017 10:31:34 AM PDT by GnuThere
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To: lacrew
Or a clue that this ‘villager’ is really an Arab fighter.

Excellent point... although I still question if the "quoted" villager ever existed?

30 posted on 04/14/2017 10:32:13 AM PDT by fso301
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To: All

Vidoe of MOAB strike in Afghanistan: http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/see-mother-of-all-bombs-explode/vi-BBzPWd8?ocid=spartanntp


31 posted on 04/14/2017 10:32:35 AM PDT by SpeedyInTexas
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To: castlegreyskull

I was thinking, Smile...Wait for Flash!


32 posted on 04/14/2017 10:33:13 AM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

;)


33 posted on 04/14/2017 10:34:49 AM PDT by ColdOne ((I miss my poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11~ Best Election Ever!)
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To: fso301

Also a good point.


34 posted on 04/14/2017 10:34:58 AM PDT by lacrew
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To: ColdOne

One of the develeopers of the MOAB is a female Vietnamese refugee named Nguyet Anh Duong.

More islamists meeting their deaths with the aid of a woman.

Do not pass Go, but proceed directly to jaheem.


35 posted on 04/14/2017 10:37:50 AM PDT by onedoug
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To: ColdOne

Since this all came down SO SOON after DT entered the WH, I am SURE that the info was available for a long time… for sure we knew all the facts since we hit Osama and boosted his computer stuff…. “O” sat on all that information and did nothing.


36 posted on 04/14/2017 10:39:56 AM PDT by SMARTY ("Nearly all men can stand adversity...to test a man's character, give him power." A. Lincoln)
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To: ColdOne

For at least a few of them it probably was the end...


37 posted on 04/14/2017 10:42:45 AM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wH-pk2vZG2M)
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To: ColdOne

[[“my relatives thought the end of the world had come.”]]

Anyone else feel like mucking with America?


38 posted on 04/14/2017 10:46:29 AM PDT by Bob434
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To: Vendome

and the beginning of eternity in hell


39 posted on 04/14/2017 10:46:54 AM PDT by Bob434
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To: bobrlbob

Yup there is a bigger one that detonates above ground.


40 posted on 04/14/2017 10:48:36 AM PDT by Secret Agent Man ( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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