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MOAB: 'It felt like the heavens were falling'
After his evening prayers, Mohammad Shahzadah closed the house gates and sat down for dinner. Then the blast came, engulfing the sky in flames and sending tremors through the ground."The earth felt like a boat in a storm," Shahzadah said. "I thought my house was being bombed. Last year a drone strike targeted a house next to mine, but this time it felt like the heavens were falling. The children and women were very scared." Look on the bright side, Mo. The women and children didn't have to jump out of 60th floor windows to avoid being burned to death. (And don't think for a second we've forgotten about that.) Also, if a drone hit the house next door last year and this year a MOAB was dropped less than two miles away, just whose side are you on? The bomb was dropped in the mountains close to Moman village in an area called Asadkhel. About 1.5 miles away, in Shaddle Bazar where Shahzadah lives, the impact was palpable. "My ears were deaf for a while. My windows and doors are broken. There are cracks in the walls," he said. Don't worry -- the Delta Force Claim Adjustment Detachment will be there around 4 AM. The following morning around 9am, fighter jets strafed the area, a local police commander, Baaz Jan, said. "We don't know who was killed yesterday or this morning. But there is confusion and fear in the radio chats we are intercepting. There is limited communication among Isis fighters," he said. Fighter 1: "Ouchies." Fighter 2: "Humminahumminahummina." Fighter 3: "Holy Shit!" Fighter 4: (Rosebud) Some observers, however, questioned the necessity of deploying a weapon of that scale against a group whose estimated 600 to 800 fighters pose only a limited threat to the Afghan state. Outstanding. Let's mobilize the First Fightin' Observer Battalion and have them go clear a cave complex in hand-to-hand fighting.
Posted by: Matt 2017-04-14 |
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