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KABUL, Afghanistan — The number of militants killed in an attack by the largest non-nuclear weapon ever used in combat by the U.S. military has risen to 94, an Afghan official said Saturday. Ataullah Khogyani, spokesman for the provincial governor in Nangarhar, said the number of Islamic State group dead was up from the 36 reported a day earlier. A Ministry of Defense official had said Friday the number of dead could rise as officials assessed the bomb site in Achin district. “Fortunately there is no report of civilians being killed in the attack,” Khogyani said. The U.S. attack on...

A huge range of security exploits, said to be worth over $2m if sold on the black market, have been leaked online.The tools are said to have been created by the US National Security Agency (NSA), and accompanying documents appear to indicate a possible breach of the Swift global banking system.Such a hack could have enabled the US to covertly monitor financial transactions, researchers said.The files were released by Shadow Brokers, a hacking group that has previously leaked malware.If genuine, it represents perhaps the most significant exposure of NSA files since the Edward Snowden leaks in 2013.On Twitter, Mr Snowden...

The giant bomb U.S. forces dropped Thursday on an ISIS training camp in Afghanistan did not cost $314 million to develop, or $16 million per unit as reported by multiple news outlets.Every news report about cost of the “Mother of All Bombs” relied on a misreading of a 2011 article or a dubious internet website that InfoWars once linked to with a “healthy bit of skepticism.”The actual cost of the bomb is unknown. The actual cost of the program isn’t publicly available because the Mother of All Bombs, officially known as GBU-43 or the Massive Ordnance Air Blast (MOAB), is manufactured by...

Corinna (ME) firm makes 'mother of all' T-shirts BANGOR - Berg Sportswear of Corinna has been called up for duty.The shirt and hat silkscreener is delivering the "mother of all" T-shirts after being encouraged by nationally syndicated radio talk-show host Howie Carr to produce them. "The Captain," as Carr's listeners call him, wanted a visual sign to promote patriotism and America's military muscle, said sportswear co-owner Robert Berg. What better way, according to Carr, than to have "the Mother of All Bombs," the mightiest of precision-guided, non-nuclear munitions in the U.S. arsenal, prominently displayed on a T-shirt that could be...

It's the Big OneBy David A. Fulghum The U.S. Air Force has tested its new 10-ton Massive Ordnance Air Blast Weapon to much fanfare, but the service purposefully left the impression that it was a bomb to be dropped only from cargo aircraft for special operations missions. In fact, the 21,500-lb, all-weather, precision-guided bomb, called MOAB or sometimes the "mother of all bombs," has been sized for carriage by the B-2 stealth bomber and is equipped with stubby wings at mid-body and four large lattice fins as part of its tail kit. The fin design was first used extensively by...

Terrifying Pentagon weapon ready for use in war. U.S. troops may drop a bigger, modern-day version of the "Daisy Cutter," used in Vietnam. (ABCNEWS.com) Firepower   ‘Massive Ordnance Air Burst’ Bomb Set to Go if War Begins By John McWethy Feb. 25 — The Bush administration plans to intensify airstrikes in the southern and northern no-fly zones whether Iraq is shooting at U.S. planes or not, sources tell ABCNEWS. As the United States approaches the possibility of war with Iraq, military sources say there will be a major effort to cripple Iraq's air defenses in both these zones and...