Gunmen torch 14 NATO oil tankers in south Pakistan

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A Pakistani cameraman films burning oil tankers after gunmen attacked a terminal in Dera Murad Jamali southwest Pakistan, Saturday, Jan. 15, 2011. A government official says gunmen in Pakistan's southwest have set ablaze 14 tankers carrying fuel for U.S. and NATO troops in Afghanistan. A driver also was wounded during the Saturday attack.


Gunmen torch 14 NATO oil tankers in south Pakistan
By MATIULLAH ACHAKZAI
The Associated Press
7:16 a.m. Saturday, January 15, 2011

CHAMAN, Pakistan — Gunmen attacked tankers carrying fuel for U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan as they sat parked at a roadside restaurant in southwest Pakistan on Saturday, setting 14 of the vehicles ablaze, officials said.

The Pakistani Taliban claimed responsibility for the assault, which also left one driver wounded.

Islamist militants and criminals in Pakistan frequently attack trucks carrying supplies for U.S. and NATO troops. The supplies typically arrive in Pakistan's southern port city of Karachi and travel overland to neighboring Afghanistan.

The latest attack occurred in the Dera Murad Jamali area of Baluchistan province, said Fatteh Mohammed, a local government official. The trucks were likely headed to the border crossing in the town of Chaman, the smaller of two such crossings into Afghanistan.

The home secretary of Baluchistan, Akbar Hussain Durani, said 136 NATO tankers were destroyed in 56 such attacks last year in the province. Some 34 people died and 23 were wounded in the attacks, he said.

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1. So now we can't even get TO Afghanistan

But we're winning according to our Fearless Leaders.

sounds like what my mother tells me about the spring of 1945. The Nazi propaganda radio was going on how the Germans army was going to achieve their glorious victory while in the distance you could hear the Soviet artillery on the outskirts of Vienna.