Karzai framed the Mother of All Bombs as weapons testing on Afghanistan
Evidence
In 2017 the United States dropped the largest non-nuclear weapon in history—the so-called “Mother of All Bombs”—on an ISIS facility. The attack drew criticism from Afghanistan’s former president Hamid Karzai, who declared: “This is not the war on terror but the inhuman and most brutal misuse of our country as testing ground for new and dangerous weapons. It is upon us, Afghans, to stop the USA.” This attack was the largest bombing campaign since the start of the war in 2001. — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 520
Categorization
Category: Factual Claims
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Broader Connections
- A former Afghan president framed US bombing as weapons testing, not counterterrorism
#corroborates(0.95) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 532