Remember the M.O.A.B. ? Another Trump success story.
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Hazrat Ali, a member of Parliament and a prominent warlord from the area who helped the Americans capture Tora Bora from Al Qaeda in 2001, said that the offensive was prompted by the American decision to drop the so-called mother of all bombs on an Islamic State network of tunnels in Achin District in April. The 20,000-pound bomb was thought to be the largest non-nuclear bomb ever deployed.
The Islamic State then decided to shift its refuge to the Tora Bora caves and tunnels, Mr. Ali said. ?Some 1,000 ISIS militants were gathered close to Tora Bora, to capture the area,? Mr. Ali said. ?I informed government forces to target them, and I told them they are trying to capture Tora Bora, but they did not pay attention.?
A local Afghan police official confirmed that the fortress had fallen. ?ISIS has captured Tora Bora and areas around it,? he said. ?The tribal elders are here in my office. They all escaped the area last night.? He spoke on the condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the news media.
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The game of whack-a-mole continues ...
"different countries -- different customs" Afghanistan 140 years ago -- little has changed in a lot of places.