{"id":268541,"date":"2017-05-06T13:36:28","date_gmt":"2017-05-06T17:36:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/?p=268541"},"modified":"2020-08-23T13:40:39","modified_gmt":"2020-08-23T17:40:39","slug":"pope-francis-angered-by-americas-mother-of-all-bombs-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/bg\/pope-francis-angered-by-americas-mother-of-all-bombs-name\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope Francis angered by America\u2019s \u2018mother of all bombs\u2019 name"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #008080\"><strong>RAEL\u2019S COMMENT:<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #008080\"><strong>For once he is right!<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Pope Francis has criticised the naming of the US military&#8217;s largest non-nuclear explosive ever used in combat as &#8220;the mother of all bombs&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was ashamed when I heard the name,&#8221; the pontiff told an audience of students at the Vatican.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A mother gives life and this one gives death, and we call this device a mother. What is going on?&#8221; he asked.<\/p>\n<p>Last month\u00a0the US dropped such a bomb,\u00a0which weighs 21,600lb (9,800kg), on Islamic State militants in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>The Pentagon said it was dropped from a US aircraft in Nangarhar province, targeting a tunnel complex used by IS.<\/p>\n<p>The explosive is officially called the GBU-43\/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast Bomb (MOAB), but is widely known as &#8220;the mother of all bombs&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>It was first tested in 2003, but had not been deployed in combat before.<\/p>\n<p>The Pope&#8217;s comments come ahead of his meeting with US President Donald Trump on 24 May.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-europe-39830311\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-europe-39830311<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RAEL\u2019S COMMENT: For once he is right! &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71,"featured_media":268542,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-268541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/bg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/bg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/bg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/bg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/71"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/bg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=268541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/bg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268541\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/bg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/268542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/bg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/bg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/bg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}