NATO trucks attacked in Pakistan; bomber kills 8

[Coventina]

Source: Associated Press

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Militants in northwestern Pakistan attacked trucks ferrying supplies to NATO and U.S. forces in Afghanistan on Monday, killing two people and destroying a dozen vehicles, witnesses and police said.

Meanwhile, a suicide bomber killed eight people and wounded 40 others at a military checkpoint in the region's Swat Valley, police said.

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The attack on the U.S.-led coalition trucks took place at a terminal in Peshawar, which sits along the supply route from Pakistan to Afghanistan. The city has seen an upsurge in violence in recent weeks, including the slaying of an American working on a U.S.-funded aid project.

Several gunmen fired rockets and automatic weapons at the Faisal terminal, killing a driver and a clerk and destroying 12 trucks, said police officer Ahsanullah Khan.



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[balantz]

1. Why are we there?

Oh yeah, the "war on terror" and looking for that dastardly cave dweller, bin Laden, who has been so very elusive (or dead) for so many years now.

It can't have anything to do with corporate, imperialist interests could it?