Q: Why is the bomb that was used in Afghanistan called a “daisy cutter”? Seems like a strange name for a bomb. –A.C., Newport News A: The BLU-82 bomb is known as the “Daisy Cutter” because it was ...

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The U.S. military dropped two more daisy cutter bombs in Afghanistan last week, according to Pentagon officials. Originally designed to clear helicopter landing areas in Vietnam, the daisy cutter ...

WASHINGTON, Dec. 12 (UPI) -- U.S. officials collected a flurry of intelligence after the an American C-130 dropped a 15,000-lb "Daisy Cutter" bomb Monday on the Tora Bora cave complex where Osama bin ...

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Today over twenty blogs are participating in a book tour for Skye Jethani’s The Divine Commodity. The fact that Jethani is a card-carrying Urthling is why we felt the Ur audience should participate in ...

LAUREL, Md. - The Air Force is gaining interest in a replacement for its dwindling supply of 15,000-pound BLU-82 "daisy cutter" bombs, a senior Air Force armaments official said Oct. 15. An already ...

The US dropped a 15,000lb "daisy cutter" bomb on the entrance of a cave at Tora Bora in eastern Afghanistan yesterday in an attempt to flush out senior al-Qaida leadership, possibly including Osama ...