Tillerson's trip comes after an American official said the US had drawn a preliminary conclusion that Russia knew in advance of the chemical attack - an allegation that heightens already acute tensions between Washington and Moscow.
'We have information that a similar provocation is being prepared ... in other parts of Syria including in the southern Damascus suburbs where they are planning to again plant some substance and accuse the Syrian authorities of using (chemical weapons),' Putin said.
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Anonymous2017-04-12 6:36
Hitler didn't even use nuclear weapons!
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Anonymous2017-04-12 6:38
>>4 He had them though! Nazi scientists created fat man and little boy.
The U.S. has used the bomb's predecessor, a smaller but still massive weapon known as the "Daisy Cutter," in Afghanistan before.
The Pentagon says it dropped the MOAB in Nangarhar province at around 7:30 p.m. local time, to counter ISIS efforts to use bunkers and tunnels as defense mechanisms.
"This is the right munition to reduce these obstacles and maintain the momentum of our offensive against ISIS-K," or the Islamic State in Afghanistan and Pakistan, Gen. John Nicholson, the commander of U.S. forces in Afghanistan, said in a statement.
The Pentagon says the U.S. "took every precaution to avoid civilian casualties" in the strike.
When deployed in combat, the smaller Daisy Cutter could be felt from miles away.
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Anonymous2017-04-14 12:21
Speaking later Thursday, President Trump was asked if he had authorized the bombing. He said he's given the military "total authorization," apparently referencing actions against ISIS in general, and praised the "incredible leaders" of the military.
>>12 It's a good thing he can do that without needing to hear from Congress on the matter.
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Anonymous2017-04-16 11:57
I mean, imagine the president, Trump, who’s now praising what the U.S. forces carried in Achin district. Imagine relatives of President Trump were in Achin district. They claim that—I don’t believe this claim, but they claim that local residents, who are around 100,000 people, left the area a couple of hours before the bomb was launched.
It was unleashed—unleashed an explosion equivalent to 11 tons of TNT, its blast radius one mile wide.