US drops 'Mother Of All Bombs' on ISIS target in
AfghanistanPentagon spokesman Adam Stump said it was the
first-ever combat use of the bomb. A MOAB is a 21,600-pound, GPS-guided
munition that is America's most powerful non-nuclear bomb.
The US military today dropped its largest non-nuclear bomb ever
deployed in combat on an Islamic State tunnel complex in eastern
Afghanistan, close to the Pakistani border.
A GBU-43/B Massive
Ordnance Air Blast Bomb (MOAB), nicknamed "Mother Of All Bombs," was
dropped on a tunnel complex of ISIS-Khorasan, a regional affiliate of
the terror group, in Achin district of Afghanistan's Nanagarh province,
the Pentagon said.
Pentagon spokesman Adam Stump said it was the
first-ever combat use of the bomb. A MOAB is a 21,600-pound, GPS-guided
munition that is America's most powerful non-nuclear bomb.
US President Donald Trump said he authorised the use of the bomb in Afghanistan and called the mission "very, very successful".
"It
was really another successful job, we are very proud of our military.
We are so proud of our military, it was another successful event," Trump
told reporters at the White House
"Everybody knows exactly what
happened, what I do is I authorise our military. We have the greatest
military in the world, they've done a job, as usual, so we have given
them total authorisation and that's what they're doing, and frankly,
that's why they've been so successful lately,”
"If you
look at what's happened over the last eight weeks and you compare that
to what's happened over the last eight years, you'll see there's a
tremendous difference. So we have incredible leaders of the military and
incredible military, and we are very proud of them, and this was
another very very successful mission,” Trump said.
Trump said he does not knows if this send a message to North Korea
"I
don't know if this sends a message. It doesn't make any difference if
it does or not. North Korea is a problem. The problem will be taken care
of. I will say this; I think China has really been working very hard,"
he said.
The bomb was dropped by an MC-130 aircraft, operated by the Air Force Special Operations Command.
At
his daily news conference, White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer said
the bomb was dropped at around 7 pm local time in Afghanistan.
"The
GBU-43 is a large, powerful and accurately delivered weapon. We
targeted a system of tunnels and caves that ISIS fighters used to move
around freely, making it easier for them to target US military advisers
and Afghan forces in the area,” Spicer said.
"The United States
takes the fight against ISIS very seriously and in order to defeat the
group, we must deny them operational space, which we did. The US took
all precautions necessary to prevent civilian casualties and collateral
damage as a result of the operation,” he said.
The strike is part of the ongoing efforts to defeat ISIS-K in Afghanistan, the US Central Command (USCENTCOM) said.
The
strike was designed to minimise the risk to Afghan and US Forces
conducting clearing operations in the area while maximising the
destruction of ISIS-K fighters and facilities.
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