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US No Longer Using F-22s to Bomb Afghan Drug Labs, Watchdog Says
 
 
28 Apr 2019
Military.com | By Richard Sisk

The U.S. military has quietly ended a once-touted bombing campaign against drug labs in Afghanistan aimed at cutting off Taliban funding, according to John Sopko, the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction.

"They're no longer doing it, which may indicate how effective it was," Sopko told defense reporters at a breakfast Wednesday.
 
He said the Operation Iron Tempest bombing campaign, begun in late 2017, "didn't have the intended effect of hitting the Taliban's purse and was probably a waste of resources."

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