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Fast Forward: Bombed out.
What happens when an OV-10 bomb, the type they're carpeting the MILF "camps" with, drops on your backyard?
According to friends who joined the recent fact-finding mission organized by Kalinaw Mindanao, the OV-10 bomb creates a crater 20 feet wide and 10 feet deep. That's enough space for an entire house in those parts to fit in.
In the crater, nothing is left but pulverized earth. It smells too, and residents attest the soil continues to emit smoke a week after the explosion.
Around the crater is complete chaos. Everything is destroyed. The impact is so great that houses are literally blown away by the scalding mix of fire and hot gas. Wooden houses …
