The US dropped the largest non-nuclear bomb in US history on Thursday, hitting an ISIS target in northeast Afghanistan.
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The phrase 'mother of all bombs' has a long history in the Middle East
The grandiose moniker is a reference to a phrase popularized by former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein.
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US officials immediately referred to the blast by its whopper of a nickname: The "mother of all bombs," as CNN reported.
The grandiose moniker is a reference to a phrase popularized by former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, who famously described the Gulf War as "the mother of all battles" in January 1991.
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assive Ordnance Air Blast, its acronym conveniently gave way to the nickname "Mother of All Bombs" — a callback to Hussein's turn of phrase.
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