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| Afghanistan |
| ‘Mother of All Bombs' dropped on tunnels once funded by the US |
| 2017-04-16 |
| 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 |
| #4 Its tunnels are 500 meters deep and have a total length of over 25 kilometers. I wonder how long until Google Earth gets the imagery? I want to see the collapsed tunnels. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2017-04-16 14:55 |
| #3 "Again, with the caves, they weren't these crazy mazes or labyrinths of caves that they described. Most of them were natural caves. Some were supported with some pieces of wood maybe about the size of a 10-foot by 24-foot room, at the largest. They weren't real big. I know they made a spectacle out of that, and how are we going to be able to get into them? We worried about that too, because we see all these reports. Then it turns out, when you actually go up there, there's really just small bunkers, and a lot of different ammo storage is up there". – Jeff, Staff Sgt. ODA 572[2002 interview on PBS broadcast in 2005) |
| Posted by: lord garth 2017-04-16 11:46 |
| #2 Bin Laden's mountain fortress What was. |
| Posted by: NanookOfTheNorthish 2017-04-16 11:07 |
| #1 the tora bora caves were enhanced with support beams and some widening and some minimal connectivity in the 1980s by groups funded by the CIA but even after this the Tora Bora 'tunnels' were quite primitive as has been documented by eyewitness US troops in 2001-2002, not anywhere near what the NYTimes Mag implied in what they published in 2005. |
| Posted by: lord garth 2017-04-16 00:26 |