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I don't think that the MOAB killed anyone.
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 RE: I don't think that the MOAB killed anyone.
April 15, 2017 at 10:39 pm
(This post was last modified: April 15, 2017 at 10:39 pm by Thumpalumpacus.)
I prefer to reserve my sympathy for those who merit it. IS does not meet that standard.
 (April 14, 2017 at 2:20 pm)Jehanne Wrote: There are not many places in the World in which the US military can test it; what better place than testing it out on ISIS in a remote location in Afghanistan? Two MOABs were dropped during development of the weapon at Eglin AFB on the beautiful Florida Emerald Coast. Our government has plenty of places a lot more remote than that to conduct similar teats. (April 14, 2017 at 2:48 pm)Jehanne Wrote: I don't know what the expiration date for one of those is; obviously, someone needs to build it, a defense contractor who needs to get paid on a regular basis. There is no contractor. The total inventory of 15 GBU-43/B bombs was manufactured at the McAlester Army Ammunition Plant at a per unit cost of $170,000. The whole program cost $2,550,000. The plant is government-owned and government-operated.
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 RE: I don't think that the MOAB killed anyone.
April 16, 2017 at 7:01 am
(This post was last modified: April 16, 2017 at 7:03 am by Gawdzilla Sama.)
(April 15, 2017 at 10:35 pm)Jehanne Wrote:(April 15, 2017 at 10:26 pm)Isis Wrote: Dead or dying, I don't particularly care. Why do you think everybody there was inside the mines? Because it's another lame attempt to keep your line of bullshit going? Well, you failed again. (April 15, 2017 at 10:39 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: I prefer to reserve my sympathy for those who merit it. IS does not meet that standard. Funny how some people are trying to make ISIS terrorists out as the victims here. 
Rather expensive munition for killing so few. Used over an urban area, it would be devastating.
Is that all we're doing to IS? Slave to the Patriarchy no more
(April 18, 2017 at 1:50 am)Moros Synackaon Wrote: Rather expensive munition for killing so few. Used over an urban area, it would be devastating. Yet again, the point was to deny the munitions to ISIS. The bomb collapsed the mine entrances. Heavy equipment would be needed to get in there now. The shattered corpses on the ground outside were just a bonus.  (April 18, 2017 at 7:09 am)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote:(April 18, 2017 at 1:50 am)Moros Synackaon Wrote: Rather expensive munition for killing so few. Used over an urban area, it would be devastating. I have continued to follow this news story and have seen some rubble but no "dead bodies". Please do not post pics, if you have them, but certainly do post links to news stories that document that any members of ISIS were killed: http://taskandpurpose.com/taliban-winnin...ghanistan/ From what I have seen, little children are now playing in the rubble from the blast, and so, if there were any people killed, they could have been innocent civilians.
Your leaps of logic aren't really entertaining.
RE: I don't think that the MOAB killed anyone.
April 18, 2017 at 9:43 am
(This post was last modified: April 18, 2017 at 9:44 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(April 18, 2017 at 8:31 am)Jehanne Wrote: From what I have seen, little children are now playing in the rubble from the blast, and so, if there were any people killed, they could have been innocent civilians. Sure, it's a big bomb, collateral damage is a possibility. The official line from centcom was/is: Quote:U.S. Forces took every precaution to avoid civilian casualties with this strike.http://www.centcom.mil/MEDIA/PRESS-RELEA...tronghold/ There -are- reports that some civilian casualties were or may have been incurred. Individual reports, and the destruction of some houses a few miles away which may have been occupied at the time. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/a...abs-impact https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/14/world...p=cur&_r=0
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(April 18, 2017 at 8:39 am)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote: Your leaps of logic aren't really entertaining. I remember why Gaddafi was killed; his body was put on display and was treated according to Muslim death rituals (washing, anointing, etc.) These ISIS terrorists were Muslim (of course!), and even Bin Laden got a Muslim burial. Are the Afghans going to do that here? If so, when and where?  (April 19, 2017 at 11:51 am)Jehanne Wrote: even Bin Laden got a Muslim burial I don't think so. You have a citation for that? Islam allows burial at sea under specific and extraordinary circumstances none of which applied here. I doubt even further than any burial by infidels is going to be accepted as Islamic. |
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