Shame: US ‘mother of all bombs’ kills only 36 in Afghanistan

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The GBU-43B known as the Massive Ordnance Air Blast (MOAB) or the Mother of All Bombs, is a 20,000-pound monster. It took $314 million to develop and has a unit cost of $16 million. One would have thought that the bomb would wipe off the entire IS-held territory but it only killed 36 fighters. Mother of all bombs indeed!

The much touted mother of all bombs weighing 20,000 pounds with a price tag of $16m per unit manufactured by the United States could only kill 13 suspected Islamic State fighters in Afghanistan, after all.

The Afghan Defense Ministry said Friday that as many as 36 suspected Islamic State militants were killed in Afghanistan when the United States dropped “the mother of all bombs,” its largest non-nuclear device ever unleashed in combat.

The claims have not been independently verified, but ministry spokesman Dawlat Waziri said no civilians were harmed in…

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