MOAB kill total -- 36 ISIS fighters

Seems like boys playing with toys.

The most destructive non-nuclear weapon in our arsenal, deployed to take out 36?

They could have dropped 36 fighters with a drone, and still had enough money left over to fund PBS.

You think Twitler and his Turd Reich may have dropped MOAB to hide the 18 we killed Tuesday in the worst friendly fire fuckup since this war began?

Twitler's entire regime is based on his PR numbers. We get to pay for it.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world...c84_story.html

Massive U.S. bomb in Afghanistan killed 36 from Islamic State, say local officials

KABUL — A 22,000-pound bomb dropped by U.S. forces on an Islamic State hideout killed about three dozen militants in eastern Afghanistan, officials said Friday, raising further questions about the already controversial decision to use such powerful ordnance on the battlefield.

In comments Friday in Kabul, Gen. John W. Nicholson Jr., commander of U.S. forces in Afghanistan, defended the strike as "the right weapon against the right target," and he called the militant hideout "an extensive obstacle to our progress."

U.S. and Afghan troops went on the offensive against a local Islamic State branch in March. The group, which is based in Nangahar province, has staged deadly attacks on civilians but failed to break out of its stronghold in the east.

Nicholson said that the "chain of command allowed me the latitude to make assessments on the ground" and deploy the GBU-43, one of the largest non-nuclear bombs in the U.S. arsenal. Used for the first time in combat Thursday, the weapon "achieved its intended purpose," he said.

U.S. and Afghan officials said no civilians were reported killed and that U.S. and Afghan Special Operations forces reached the site of the attack to assess the damage. According to Afghanistan's Defense Ministry, the militant complex, which was a network of tunnels and bunkers, was destroyed. U.S. forces did not say how many militants might have been killed, but Afghan defense officials put the number at 36.

For its part, the Islamic State-linked Amaq News Agency denied that the bombing caused casualties among the militants, according to the SITE Intelligence Group, which monitors online postings from extremist groups and others. The Islamic State offered no evidence to support its claim.

"It was a powerful bomb; we felt it several kilometers away," said Khair Mohammad Safi, police chief of the Achin district where the strike took place. Safi, who operates from a neighboring district for security reasons, said he could see flames from the explosion.

"The wave caused by [the blast] was strong. There was a huge fire," he said. "This was the [Islamic State's] main stronghold. They were annihilated. We needed such a bomb for this place."

Achin, along the border with Pakistan, is a restive area where militants have long used the porous border to smuggle weapons and fighters. For nearly two years, it has been the site of fierce fighting between the Islamic State affiliate, known as Khorasan Province, and U.S. and Afghan forces.

Many of the district's roughly 100,000 residents have fled, officials and aid agencies said. Even fighters with the rival Taliban-led insurgency have battled the extremists, who Nicholson said are largely made up of Pakistani and Uzbek militants.

Last week, Army Staff Sgt. Mark R. De Alencar, 37, was killed in Achin by small-arms fire. But earlier this month, the U.S. military said it had already reduced Islamic State-controlled territory in Afghanistan by two-thirds. About half of the group's fighters had been killed, U.S. forces said.

"The use of drones turned out to be very effective against Daesh" in Afghanistan, said Aryan Youn, a lawmaker from Nangahar, using an Arabic acronym for the Islamic State. "If that was the case, why did the United States want to use such a sophisticated and powerful bomb?"

Local residents, she said, are worried about the impact of the explosion on their health and farmland. Achin is a heavily agricultural district.

The Taliban on Friday also issued a statement condemning the strike. Its fighters have been engaged in a years-long insurgency against the government and international forces in Afghanistan.

In a message distributed on the instant messaging app Viber, the Taliban said the United States had “no justification” for using such a powerful bomb during combat operations, calling it a “show” by U.S. forces to persuade the world it is battling the Islamic State.

Former Afghan president Hamid Karzai posted scathing criticism of the U.S. military Thursday on Twitter, calling the operation a “brutal misuse of our country as [a] testing ground for new and dangerous weapons” and calling on Afghans “to stop” the United States.

Fake News.

Did they find 360 toes or 72 sandals?

Fake News.

Did they find 360 toes or 72 sandals? Originally Posted by LexusLover

The Mussulman-luvin, Hitler worshipping, lying, hypocritical, racist, cum-gobbling golem fucktard, HDDB, DEM is just upset that no Americans were put in harm's way to be maimed or killed while Trump sent 36 of Assup's kinsmen to meet their maker.

This weapon was chosen to destroy the compound.

The Mussulman-luvin, Hitler worshipping, lying, hypocritical, racist, cum-gobbling golem fucktard, HDDB, DEM is just upset that no Americans were put in harm's way to be maimed or killed while Trump sent 36 of Assup's kinsmen to meet their maker. Originally Posted by I B Hankering

So will assup, in his " grief " over the loss of his mussul-man kinsman, be offering his deluxe " air tight " package for a discount down at his gloryholes today ?

This weapon was chosen to destroy the compound. Originally Posted by tonyvicksa

Tony, you do realize that the OP is clueless regarding such things?

And he's NEVER had to "rat" around in tunnels and bunkers!

Here's what the article said ...

"... the militant complex, which was a network of tunnels and bunkers, was destroyed."

Mebbe assup is " concerned " about all of those goats that are now " fatherless " and crying DAAAAA-DY ! :clappin g:

Fake News.

Did they find 360 toes or 72 sandals? Originally Posted by LexusLover

Department of defense released the figures

Seems like boys playing with toys.

The most destructive non-nuclear weapon in our arsenal, deployed to take out 36?

They could have dropped 36 fighters with a drone, and still had enough money left over to fund PBS.

You think Twitler and his Turd Reich may have dropped MOAB to hide the 18 we killed Tuesday in the worst friendly fire fuckup since this war began?

Twitler's entire regime is based on his PR numbers. We get to pay for it. Originally Posted by Yssup Rider

Jerry Mander, the Shit Eater... wishing you and Lois were down in one of those caves, snuggling...

http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2017...y-made-public/

Lois Lerner Wants Judge to Seal Her Testimony in Targeting Case – Fears Death Threats if Her Testimony Is Made Public

Jim Hoft Apr 14th, 2017 9:11 am 47 Comments




Former IRS senior executive Lois G. Lerner wants her testimony in an upcoming class-action case to remain sealed.

The former Obama official is accused of targeting hundreds of groups due to their conservative beliefs.
The Washington Times reported:

Former IRS senior executive Lois G. Lerner told a federal court this week that she faces the possibility of death threats if her role in the tax agency’s tea party-targeting becomes public, and asked a judge to forever seal her upcoming deposition in a class-action lawsuit brought by hundreds of groups that were targeted.

Mr. Lerner and Holly Paz, another figure from the IRS tea party targeting, told the judge they’ve already faced “harassment and death threats” before, and said they fear another media firestorm if their version of events from the tea party targeting were to become public.

The two women said they are willing to testify, but said they could be putting “their lives in serious jeopardy.”

“Mss. Lerner and Paz have demonstrated that the public dissemination of their deposition testimony would expose them and their families to harassment and a credible risk of violence and physical harm,” they said in documents submitted by their lawyer to Judge Michael R. Barrett.

Documents released in July 2016 revealed the IRS knew of Tea Party targeting since 2011.

The IRS released a list in 2016 of 426 Tea Party and conservative groups that were targeted during the Obama years.

Irs List by Joshua Gray on Scribd

Typical non-sequitur from our resident waterhead.

How much of your permanent disability will get eaten up by Twitler's MOAB escapades?

We as americans will never get it...we believe our might and strength will win the war on terror...this is not a war of muscle and military might....this is an intelluctual war. Every bomb we drp.every top aide we kill only produces more. They use evrything we do as propaganda. Which works...like gangs in the US isis targets the disinfranchised, those without hope and uses the appeal of a better life to lure them. They use our destruction as a way of saying WE are trying to kill them. We have to use brain power not bombs

Typical non-sequitur from our resident waterhead.

How much of your permanent disability will get eaten up by Twitler's MOAB escapades? Originally Posted by Yssup Rider

Ask the Nobel Peace Prize Winner, Jerry Mander the Shit Eating 0zombie

Russia has a much bigger mother

Fake News.

Did they find 360 toes or 72 sandals? Originally Posted by LexusLover

Easy to cry FAKE NEWS when it comes from the Turd Reich, isn't it, LLephantMan? If it came from the Turd Reich, then you can bet the news is twice as bad as they say and half as good.

I wonder if Twitler will ever take responsibility for anything?