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Trump launches MOAB bomb in Afghanistan and North Korea says: we are ready to fight

Rome, Italy - The device was used yesterday against positions being used by Isis militias. Tension mounts worldwide

At 7:32 pm of yesterday (local time) United States dropped a GBU-43 MOAB (Massive Ordnance Air Blast) bomb from a MC-130 Combat Talon aircraft in Afghanistan. It is the first time that such a device was used in military actions. The target was a complex of tunnels and caves in the province of Nangarhar -a mountain region in the East of the Country next to the border with Pakistan- used by Isis militias...

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Rome, Italy, 04/14/2017 12:07
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