Goodness. That seems rather a lot...
the chemical material that plays a key role in making improvised bombs.Saleh claimed that the explosives have been smuggled by Pakistain to the Afghan Taliban
...the Pashtun equivalent of men...in 2020 and that each ton can make up to 50 bombs.
That’s 750,000 - 1,000,000 IEDs, if I tapped the right keys on the calculator app. They must be hip deep in the things — thunderstorms must be completely overwhelmed by secondary explosions. Because of course they won’t be evenly distributed across Afghanistan’s 252,000 square miles at a rate of 4 IEDs per square mile.
According to Saleh, improvised bombs use fewer industrial kabooms, and its exports are sourced to Pakistain.He said that most of the explosives are made of ammonium nitrate, a chemical fertilizer that has been banned in Afghanistan for decades.
"In our negotiations with the Paks, we have repeatedly mentioned the ban on the export of these materials to Afghanistan," Saleh said.
This comes in a time that the earth-shattering kaboom of magnetic mines and suicide kabooms in Kabul and other provinces of the country has escalated.