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Former pres. slams US for using Afghanistan as testing ground

Sunday, 16 April 2017 1:20 AM [ Last Update: Sunday, 16 April 2017 9:13 AM ]

A video grab from April 13, 2017 footage courtesy of the Department of Defense (DOD) shows a GBU-43/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast bomb striking a Daesh cave and tunnel systems in the Achin district of the Nangarhar Province in eastern Afghanistan at 7:32 p.m. local time. (Photo by AFP)

Amin Alemi
Press TV, Kabul

The drop of Washington’s biggest non-nuclear bomb on a village in Afghanistan’s eastern Nangarhar province has sparked mixed reactions. Top US and Afghan officials have called it a victory. But some well-known politicians, including former president Hamid Karzai, have strongly condemned the use of such a bomb on Afghan soil. Amin Alemi brings us more from Kabul.

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