smh.com.au

(I’m reading the Sydney Morning Herald at the moment)

The paper notes that the Department of Defense (US) is not going to release information about the giant bomb dropped on Afghanistan and whether it achieved its aims or not.

They note the figures released on the number killed in the attack came from the Afghan government, not the Pentagon.

A Pentagon spokesman said its forces would not release an official statement on potential damage or casualties incurred from the strike, which was carried out in the Achin district of Nangahar province on Thursday night.

It was unclear why the Afghan government released casualty figures but US forces did not. For its part, the Islamic State-linked Amaq News Agency denied the bombing caused casualties among the militants, according to the SITE Intelligence Group. Islamic State offered no evidence to support its claim.

I can guess why: The White House doesn’t want to be embarrassed that the “mother of all bombs” was one mother of a bomb for military tactics.