Hamid Karzai Blasts 'atrocity' of Mother of All Bombs Strike

AKIPRESS.COM - Former Afghan president Hamid Karzai has accused the US of using his country as a weapons testing ground following Washington's Mother of All Bombs strike.

The US dropped its largest ever non-nuclear bomb on ISIS hideouts in Afghanistan's Nangarhar province last week killing nearly 100 militants, Daily Mail reported.But the country's former leader, Karzai, described the GBU-43 Massive Ordnance Air Blast attack as an 'immense atrocity against the Afghan people'.

The 59-year-old said today that he objected to the use of the weapon, saying that his country 'was used very disrespectfully by the U.S.

to test its weapons of mass destruction.'Just days ago, he accused his successor Ashraf Ghani of committing treason by allowing the US military to use the missile in the attack on ISIS.

Karzai condemned the attack and vowed to 'stand against America' in what may signal a broader political backlash that may endanger the US military mission in Afghanistan.Karzai took to Twitter and wrote: 'I vehemently and in strongest words condemn the dropping...