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‘Mother of All Bombs' dropped on tunnels once funded by the US
At least we knew where it was.Whistleblower and former NSA contractor Edward Snowden wrote on Twitter that the bomb dropped in the “middle of nowhere” in Afghanistan cost $314 million, referring to the overall development costs of the MOAB project. Truths mingle with half truths mingle with quarter truths mingle with eighth truths until the truths are too tiny to be seen with the nekkid eye... In addition, Snowden pointed to the fact that the Tora Bora underground system of caves and tunnels is located in Nangarhar where the bomb was dropped. Tora Bora (Black Cave in Pashto) was known to be a stronghold of the Taliban, used by military forces against the Soviet Union in 1980s. Its tunnels are 500 meters deep and have a total length of over 25 kilometers. Tora Bora had natural caverns that were expanded into a CIA-financed complex for the Mujahedeen. Its labyrinth of tunnels houses arms depots, bomb shelters and dwelling rooms. “Tora Bora was a fortress of snow-capped peaks, steep valleys and fortified caves. Its miles of tunnels, bunkers and base camps, dug deeply into the steep rock walls, had been part of a CIA-financed complex built for the mujahedeen,” according to a 2005 article in the New York Times. Posted by: Flarong Grolusing5445 2017-04-16 |
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