A tour of MOAB Ground Zero
Fox News has some video and photos from the point of the detonation of the MOAB munition from a few weeks ago;
Photos obtained by Fox News in Afghanistan taken less than two weeks after the strategically targeted explosion of the Massive Ordnance Air Blast (MOAB) bomb to destroy ISIS fighters and their underground tunnels in Eastern Afghanistan’s Achin district of Nanganhar province show just how devastating the munition is.
“The war is still going on near the site,” Karim Amini, a local TOLO News journalist who toured the site, told Fox News. “[The destruction] was wide, but how deep the MOAB went was not clear as it dived into the earth and blew out the tunnels which you can’t see.”
Reactions of the detonation from Afghans is mixed;
“This bomb was a good thing. It destroyed everything. ISIS can’t use that area anymore, so that is the success,” said Maj. Abadullah Karimi, spokesperson for the 202nd Shamshad Police Corps, which is operating in those ISIS-infiltrated areas of Nangahar Province.
And while many have expressed enthusiasm, some are outraged.
“This was truly inappropriate. The U.S. was just using Afghanistan as grounds to send a message to North Korea, Russia, trying to threaten them,” Mohamad Omer Safi, former provincial governor of Kunduz and head of the U.N. Security Office-Afghanistan, told Fox News. He insisted that less than 2.5 miles behind the bombed area are more strategic ISIS locations, including caves and leadership headquarters. “Right near there is the ISIS capital. Why wasn’t that targeted?”
Category: Terror War
Ex-OS2, this looks like your work – or was it the Wall of Shame detonation?
“Mohamad Omer Safi, former provincial governor of Kunduz and head of the U.N. Security Office-Afghanistan, told Fox News. He insisted that less than 2.5 miles behind the bombed area are more strategic ISIS locations, including caves and leadership headquarters. “Right near there is the ISIS capital. Why wasn’t that targeted?”
I wonder if ol’ Mo communicated that information to the folks fighting ISIS? Or did he keep that to himself?
“Why wasn’t that targeted?”
Sooooo. . . dropping the bomb was wrong because it was simply a message to others. . . and so we should have dropped it in another location? It wouldn’t be a message over there?
I agree with Bobo here(http://valorguardians.com/blog/?p=71832#comment-2985345). It was probably the next village over where some family lives he has been feuding with for centuries in some sort of Al Hatfield Vs Mohhamadcoys kind of thing. Probably some sort of goat marriage dispute.
Thanks for the intel Mohamed, second MOAB on the way.
I’m not so sure I trust the former provincial governor.
Of course, I don’t trust any of them.
Word.
“Why wasn’t that targeted?” Phuk you, Mo. If you know where your enemy is, saddle up jackass, ride out, and make them dead. Otherwise STFU.
Looks like ole MOAB bombed them back to the Stone Age. Oh, wait. They were still in the Stone Age before the MOAB.
So the people in the area think it was a good idea, but old Mo is against it because it cut off a supply of cash to him. I think I like the first group of People. Besides, Mo is sucking off the UN teat, so why would you trust him.
What’s the issue? It did what it was supposed to do, didn’t it?
Word ^^^^^
One thing is for sure and it’s that anyone on the receiving end of a MOAB is more fucked than one of MO’s goats on a Thursday night.
Excellent, Infidel, I do believe you may have just created a neologism: “Mo’s goat” meaning someone who is really, totally screwed.
“That dude is screwed worse than Mo’s goat.”
Heh, love it…
…on a Thursday night.”
THERE ya go! 😁
“Right near there is the ISIS capital. Why wasn’t that targeted?”
ISIS capital or the homestead of a family that your family has been going at for a hundred years?
Whenever an Afghani government official tells you something, you have to dig through all of it to find the 20% that’s true.
AMEN to that!
Wiped out a bunch of nasty players, made their complex uninhabitable, and saved US and Allied lives in the process, win-win-win. If a message got through to NDtBF and Pooty-poot, well, that’s just bonus.
Muslim can fight their own wars.
They dropped a MOAB there? How can you tell?That area in the photo looks pretty much the same as the rest of the country. Shitty.
IMHO many Afghans are as capable of telling the whole truth as they are at maintaining things which is as capable as they are at using a flush toilet, they are incapable! I don’t know how many FOB’s we convoyed to where the U.S. Personnel literally kept the Afghans padlocked the fuck OUT of the U.S. Personnel latrines because of the amount of times Afghans would go into one and shit wherever they pleased whether it was in front of a sink, in a shower stall or right next to a toilet, they seemed incapable of shitting in a civilized manner.