'It felt like the heavens were falling': Afghans reel from MOAB's impact

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

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.”

The US dropped its largest non-nuclear bomb ever used in combat on eastern Afghanistan on Thursday in another dramatic show of military force by the Trump administration.

The GBU-43/B, colloquially known as the “mother of all bombs” or MOAB, targeted tunnels and bunkers in Achin district in Nangarhar province, built by fighters loyal to Islamic State who also kept prisoners there.

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[KittyWampus]

1. Must have been a heck of an after shock and wind after the initial impact.

[LittleBlue]

2. The Afghans know that if we leave, it's back to the Taliban/ISIS

Which is why we're still there.

[0rganism]

3. "who also kept prisoners there"

that's an interesting angle for which i haven't heard much discussion
i've heard plenty of talk about the 36 "suspected ISIS militants" killed in the attack
any estimate on the number of ISIS prisoners, if any, who were killed? seems like large-scale bombing could be suboptimal tactics if rescuing the innocent is considered at all in the pareto