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Not at all sure that Pelosi and Schumer supported the bombing, as written in the "United States" section. Removed a source that was in reference to another event. Can someone investigate?

I can't find a single source that suggests they supported this particular bombing.

https://www.politico.com/story/2017/04/trump-syria-congress-reaction-republicans-democrats-236975

https://pelosi.house.gov/news/press-releases/pelosi-statement-on-us-airstrikes-in-syria

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/schumer-pelosi-among-democrats-to-react-to-syria-strike

Every source I've found says that they supported a different airstrike that occurred earlier in the month, so I'm thinking that people are confusing the two.

I removed the reference to them both as I can't find any sources that say they supported this specific strike.

Smorticus ( talk) 00:29, 13 November 2020 (UTC) reply

Those tunnel networks we're bombing in Afghanistan, we paid for them: "The first time bin Laden had seen the Tora Bora caves, he had been a young mujahedeen fighter and a recent university graduate with a degree in civil engineering. It had been some 20 years before, during Washington's first Afghan war, the decade-long, C.I.A.-financed jihad of the 1980's against the Soviet occupation. Rising to more than 13,000 feet, 35 miles southwest of the provincial capital of Jalalabad, Tora Bora was a fortress of snow-capped peaks, steep valleys and fortified caves. Its miles of tunnels, bunkers and base camps, dug deeply into the steep rock walls, had been part of a C.I.A.-financed complex built for the mujahedeen." -- 87.156.225.243 ( talk) 00:53, 14 April 2017 (UTC) reply

There's also a lot of irrigation tunnels out there - the ones they call kariz - that can be centuries old. Some them are pre-islamic. Terry has been known to get into these as well, but unfortuantely so do civilians and the local ordinary decent criminals which makes blowing them up problematic. That and the whole irrigation thing, which is bad enough as it is out there. 82.1.7.156 ( talk) 12:15, 22 July 2021 (UTC) reply

According to MOAB bomb, the weapon is "designed to be delivered by ... primarily the MC-130E Combat Talon I or MC-130H Combat Talon II." If that was the case at Nangarhar, it should be specified. Sca ( talk) 15:03, 14 April 2017 (UTC) reply

The aircraft that was used to drop this particular bomb was a MC-130J Commando II. 35.129.56.28 ( talk) 16:09, 4 August 2023 (UTC) reply