Not so long ago, using the term “false flag” immediately marked you as a “conspiracy theorist,” – basically a nutcase not in touch with reality. Supposedly.
In case anybody still doesn’t know, a “false flag [attack/event]” is an incident perpetrated by one party (usually a state) either against itself or someone else, while making it appear that a third party is to blame.
The huge international attention devoted to the US missile strike on Syria’s Al-Shayrat air base has drawn attention away from the continuing progress of the Syrian army in the war in Syria.
Indian authorities are claiming that at least 500 Pakistani nationals protecting ISIS operatives in Afghanistan, were killed in the US MOAB bombing in Nangarhar province.
The area that was targeted by the 21,000-pound bomb was said to be controlled by the Islamic State and protected by the Pakistan army.
U.S. Marines load ammunition and weapons seized in a raid on Mogadishu, Somalia’s, Bakara Market December 2006. A Marine stands holding a M60 machine gun, left, pointing it at a crowd of Somali civilians standing at the right. (Photo/Expert Infantry via Flickr)
In October 1993, during the Battle of Mogadishu (the Black Hawk Down incident), 18 US soldiers were killed and 73 wounded, with a pair of Black Hawk helicopters shot down. The US responded by ceasing military operations, and within a few months had withdrawn all troops from Somalia. Today, they are headed back.
While most of the mainstream media’s focus remains on Syria and on Bashar al-Assad’s and Vladimir Putin’s alleged “crimes” there – mostly staged false-flags and manufactured propaganda on social media – there is a genuine humanitarian crisis unfolding in the Iraqi city of Mosul.
The Iraqi army, with US and other western advisors and aided by significant air support, are pushing onto the heart of the embattled city – the biggest stronghold of ISIS in Iraq.
The western media may be gushing about the dropping of the MOAB (Massive Ordnance Air Blast or “Mother of All Bombs”) on a bunker in Afghanistan (which the US itself built), but the MOAB is actually not the largest conventional bomb ever built.
That distinction goes to the FOAB (Father of All Bombs) – it has 4 times the power and Russia built it 10 years ago.
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The U.S. Military, apparently eager to test a huge out-dated bomb – anacronym “MOAB” for “Mother Of All Bombs” – dropped one for the first time in the sparsely populated mountains of Afghanistan this week.
Smoke rising from a GBU-43/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast bomb strike on an alleged ISIS cave and tunnel systems in the Achin district of the Nangarhar Province in eastern Afghanistan. (U.S. Department of Defense via AP)
For the first time ever, the United States has used the GBU-43 Massive Ordinance Air Blast (MOAB) bomb, a 21,000 lb conventional bomb, in a non-test environment in Afghanistan’s Nangarhar Province. Officials say they are still assessing what the attack did.
