Questions for US military after doubt cast on efficiency of Afghan bombing

Fresh analysis suggests ‘mother of all bombs’ caused far less damage than was originally reported – raising questions over why it was dropped in the first placeAfter dropping its largest conventional bomb ever used in combat in Afghanistan on 13 April, the US military said the massive ordnance air blast, or Moab, was a “very clear message to Isis” that they would be “annihilated”. Defence secretary Jim Mattis said the bomb was “necessary to break I