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April 17, 2017

Gen. McMaster Meets with Afghan President After U.S. Drops Largest Non-Nuclear Bomb
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National Security Adviser Gen. H.R. Mc Master met with Afghan President
Ashraf Ghani and other top Afghan leaders in the country's capital Kabul
over the weekend, only days after the U.S. dropped its most powerful
non-nuclear bomb on Afghanistan.

The attack was carried out with a 21,600-pound bomb called the Massive
Ordnance Air Blast, or MOAB, nicknamed "The Mother of All Bombs." Afghan
officials say it killed nearly 100 ISIS militants when it was dropped on
Achin district in Nangarhar province. The Guardian reports that a
parliamentarian from Nangarhar says the explosion killed at least two
civilians: a teacher and his young son.

Over the weekend, Afghanistan's former president, Hamid Karzai, called
President Ashraf Ghani a "traitor" for coordinating the attack with the
U.S. military. He also criticized Thursday's attack, saying, "This is
not the war on terror, but the inhuman and most brutal misuse of our
country as testing ground for new and dangerous weapons."


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