The fact that it was named "the mother of all bombs" is ironical. It was the phrase that Saddam Hussein had used "The mother of all battles." Anyway the timing, the kind of bomb, and the kind of bomb, and the propaganda that followed is all premeditated. See "The consequence to 'Making America Great Again'" http://azzasedky.typepad.com/egypt/2017/04/the-consequences-of-making-america-great-again-.html