SANA MAHMOOD
KABUL: Mother of All Bombs (GBU-43/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast) that was dropped to destroy IS’s tunnel-n-cave complex in Nangarhar on Thursday (13th April) killed 92 fighters.
This was stated here by Afghan authorities following moving of US-led forces into the bombed site.
It is pertinent to mention here that the complex was heavily mined by IS fighters to stop the conventional ground attacks.
Supporting the US bombing Afghan President Ashraf Ghani said that it was designed to support the clearance operations in the region.
Justifying the attack US commander in Afghanistan General John Nicholson pointed towards the bunkers, tunnels and mine fields: “This weapon was used to reduce those obstacles so that we could continue our offensive in Nangarhar”.
To contain the IS (much smaller outfit as compared to Taliban) that was gaining ground in the country, US warplanes have dropped 1,337 weapons over Afghanistan last year. That was over forty percent as compared to the bombing in 2015.
In the last two months 400 airstrikes have been conducted by USA in the country.
