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Afghanistan
U.S. massive bomber strikes insurgents' positions in N. Afghanistan
2018-02-12
[XINHUANET] The U.S. Air Force B-52 bomber has joined Afghan and coalition aircrafts to pound murderous Moslems' positions in northern Afghan provinces, authorities said Wednesday.

On Tuesday, the corpse count of murderous Moslems climbed to 28 after a B-52 warplane struck an Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
(IS) terrorist group hideout in northern Jawzjan province, provincial deputy Police Chief Abdul Hafiz Khashi told Xinhua on Wednesday.

Earlier reports said that 13 IS gunnies bit the dust after the bombing which occurred in Sar Dara locality of the mountainous Darzab district in Jawzjan, 390 km north of Kabul.

Violence has escalated in the previously peaceful northern region over the last few years as Afghan forces together with troops of NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions...
-led Resolute Support and United States Forces-Afghanistan pushed against the gunnies in the south and east.

"United States Forces-Afghanistan launched a series of precision strikes in Northern Afghanistan in a direct effort to destroy murderous Moslem revenue sources, training facilities, and support networks. Over the past 96 hours, U.S. forces conducted air operations to strike Taliban
...Arabic for students...
training facilities in Badakhshan province, preventing the planning and rehearsal of terrorist acts near the border with China and Tajikistan." the coalition forces said in a statement on Tuesday.

The strikes also destroyed stolen Afghan National Army (ANA) vehicles that were in the process of being converted to boom-mobiles by Death Eaters, it noted.

"During these strikes, a U.S. Air Force B-52 Stratofortress dropped 24 precision guided munitions on Taliban fighting positions, setting a record of the most guided munitions ever dropped from a B-52." the statement said.

Posted by:Fred

#4  Bin Obama, "war crimes against jihad, send me DNC money"!
Posted by: Woodrow   2018-02-12 12:25  

#3  24 is a magic number that keeps turning up in these reports.

12 munitions on each of 2 pylons.
Posted by: Skidmark   2018-02-12 11:05  

#2  How many bombs can a single B-52 carry, M. Murcek?
Posted by: trailing wife   2018-02-12 11:02  

#1  24 is a magic number that keeps turning up in these reports. Story in that somewhere.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2018-02-12 10:00  

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