From 9707d04f0fc7849ecf8c1a871225bc075c02d6d9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dessalines Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2017 09:25:24 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Add nangarhar province attack. --- us_atrocities.md | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/us_atrocities.md b/us_atrocities.md index a6a004a..f0f93cc 100644 --- a/us_atrocities.md +++ b/us_atrocities.md @@ -43,6 +43,7 @@ ### Middle East +- On April 13th, 2017, the US dropped the second largest non-[nuclear](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_weapon) bomb known as the [GBU-43/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GBU-43/B_Massive_Ordnance_Air_Blast) (MOAB), in [Nangahar](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nangarhar_Province)’s [Achin District](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Achin_District) in eastern Afghanistan to destroy tunnel complexes used by [ISIS](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISIS), in the [April 2017 Nangarhar airstrike](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_2017_Nangarhar_airstrike). 36 people were killed, and an Iraq war veteran posted its potential: "At 1,000 yards, it obliterates everything. Up to 1.7 miles, shock waves kill people, damage buildings and vehicles. Up to 2 miles, causes deafness. Up to 5 miles, breaks windows. Up to 30 miles, 10,000 foot high mushroom cloud visible." [1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_2017_Nangarhar_airstrike) - On April 4th, 2017, following the [Khan_Shaykhun_chemical_attack](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khan_Shaykhun_chemical_attack), Trump ordered an airstrike of 59 tomahawk cruise missiles(worth $70 million) fired at the Shayrat air base in Syria(one that Trump claims is the source of the chemical attack) in the [2017 Shayrat Missile Strike](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Shayrat_missile_strike). This is the first attack by the US directly targeting [Ba'athist](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_Socialist_Ba%27ath_Party_%E2%80%93_Syria_Region) [Syrian government](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syrian_government) forces, who are closely allied with Russia. Russian Prime Minister [Dimitry Medvedev](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimitry_Medvedev) said the attack brought the U.S. "within an inch" of clashing with the Russian military, and could've sparked a nuclear war. The attack was praised by US politicians on both sides of the aisle, as well >30 countries. Over 700 children have been killed US coalition airstrikes in Iraq and Syria since August 2014. [1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Shayrat_missile_strike) - On March 21st, 2017, A US airstrike [killed at least 30 Syrian civilians](https://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/middle-east/at-least-30-dead-after-air-strike-hits-syrian-school-1.3020369) in an airstrike on a school in the Raqqa province. The week before, 49 people were killed when US warplanes fired on a target in in the [2017 al-Jinah airstrike](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_al-Jinah_airstrike), a village in western [Aleppo](https://www.irishtimes.com/search/search-7.1213540?tag_location=Aleppo&article=true) province. US officials said the attack had hit a building where al-Qaeda operatives were meeting, but residents said the warplanes had struck a mosque where hundreds of people had gathered for a weekly religious meeting. [1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_al-Jinah_airstrike) - On March 17th, 2017, A US airstrike killed ~112 civilians in Mosul, Iraq. In response, US Defense Secretary James Mattis said, "There is no military force in the world that is proven more sensitive to civilian casualties." [1](http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/27/middleeast/mosul-civilian-deaths/)