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Video depicts massive explosion as B-52s bomb Taliban mines factory
Fifteen second video can be seen at the link.
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The US military in Afghanistan has released a new video of the ongoing air campaign against the Taliban
...Arabic for students...
 purportedly showing the destruction of a mines factory.

The video shows the Arclight airstrike on Taliban explosives compound in southern Helmand
...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan...
 province, triggering a massive kaboom after bombs were dropped, apparently by B-52 bombers.

According to the US military, the enormous secondary kaboom is evidence of stockpiles of explosives the Taliban would have used against the Afghan people.

The growing Arclight airstrikes have apparently put the Taliban into a state of panic with a front man of the group claiming last week that only civilians are being killed or maimed in the ongoing campaign.

A front man for the Taliban group Qari Yousuf Ahmadi said the claims of inflicting heavy losses to the Taliban fighters are false.

Ahmadi further added that only the civilians have been killed and their houses have been destroyed in the Arclight airstrikes.

The commander of the NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all....
-led Resolute Support and US forces in Afghanistan General John Nicholson said Monday that the U.S. and Afghan forces conducted a series of strikes over the past 24 hours against Taliban drug labs, to target the revenue streams of the terrorists.

Gen. Nicholson further added that the combined operations struck seven Taliban drug labs and one command-and-control node in northern Helmand province.

"Specifically, in striking northern Helmand and the drug enterprises there, we’re hitting the Taliban where it hurts, which is their finances," he said.


Posted by: Fred 2017-11-26
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