A number of people from the Afghan region who brought down the United States in their airspace or bombs on ISIS terrorists in 2017 recounted the grave consequences of this strike.
The inhabitants of this area in the eastern Afghan state of Nangarhar complained that they were still suffering from complications of that strike, noting that the population suffered from skin diseases and neurological disorders, as well as that the Earth's crops had decreased and yielded.
In April 2017
the US military announced that it had bombed ISIL in the eastern Afghan state of Nangarhar with the most powerful US non-nuclear bomb (or bomb), which had never been used in combat.
At the time, Pentagon spokesman Adam Stamp recounted that an American aircraft had dropped a massive "GBU-43" bomb known as the "bomb mother" in eastern Afghanistan, noting that the strike had targeted a series of caves used by ISIS militants in the Ashen area.
The US Department of Defense spokesman confirmed that this was the first time this type of bomb had been used in combat, pointing out that it weighed 21 thousand pounds (about 10 tons) and had been shot down by a US "C- 130" transport aircraft.
Later after the strike, the Pope of the Vatican Francis criticized the designation of the largest U.S.
non-nuclear bomb as "mother of the bombs", saying that the word "mother" should not be used to refer to a lethal weapon.
"I was ashamed when I heard that name," the Vatican pope said, adding:
"Mother gives life, while that (bomb) brings death. How do we call this weapon a mother? What is going on? "
The surprise was revealed by former US intelligence agent Edward Snowden, who stated that the network of tunnels targeted by the Pentagon with its own bombs was built with American funds while the US intelligence supported Afghan mujahideen against Soviet forces at the time, noting that "that network of mujahideen tunnels we bombed in Afghanistan, we ourselves paid for it."
- His comment was accompanied by a link to an article published in The New York Times in 2005
- which confirmed that in the 1980s the CIA had funded the construction of
- the so-called Tora Bora caves in the eastern Afghan state of Nangarhar
- when Washington was helping the "mujahideen" who fought limited teams of Soviet troops there.
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