Wow, did you see the crater from the bomb in Mosul? Freekin VAST.

[Bill]

Big bomb in Mosul yesterday - the crater is unbelieveable - must have been thousands of pounds of explosives.

It's like 40 feet deep and 160-200 feet across.

[UserName]

"The commander of US forces in Northern Iraq, Maj. Gen. Mark Hertling told the Monitor in a telephone interview that US military experts who examined the scene Thursday concluded that nearly 25 tons (50,000 pounds) of explosive material was used in making it one of the largest bombings in Iraq since the start of the war".
http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/0125/p04s04-woiq.html

Yes, she's a beaut. It used to be a 3 story building.

[Smurf-Herder]

Apparently, they blew themselves up. :popcorn:

http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSL1880448320080125?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews&rpc=22&sp=true

"U.S. commanders in northern Iraq said Wednesday's massive blast, which left a crater the size of a multi-storey building, was in an unoccupied building they said was used by al Qaeda to store weapons and tons of explosives."

[Bill]

Makes sense. That's what I would do too.

I'd try to wait until the last possible second to take as many of the enemy with me as I could. I wonder if they were able to do that?

Could have been an accidental detonation.

The video I watched of the hole was pretty astonishing.