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27 NATO Tankers Torched in Pakistan

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Posted on Oct 1, 2010
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Raw video footage of one of the 27 tankers that suspected militants were believed to have set ablaze in Pakistan.

Officials believe up to 15 gunmen armed with rocket launchers have attacked a supply convoy and destroyed at least 27 tankers carrying fuel for NATO forces in Afghanistan. The attacks, which occurred in the southern Sindh providence of Pakistan, may be a response to Thursday’s cross-border NATO airstrike into Pakistan.

The BBC:

Suspected militants in southern Pakistan have destroyed at least 27 tankers carrying fuel for Nato forces in Afghanistan, officials said.

There have been many similar ambushes in Pakistan in recent years, but this is the first one in this part of the southern province of Sindh.

It is not clear if it is linked to a cross-border air strike by Nato that killed three Pakistani troops.

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By diamond, October 4, 2010 at 1:47 pm Link to this comment

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By call me roy, October 3, 2010 at 8:56 pm Link to this comment

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By call me roy, October 3, 2010 at 8:50 pm Link to this comment

In the last decade the West has dumped more than a trillion, and sacrificed nearly 5,000 of our bravest trying to bring a semblance of civilization and structure to the gutter of Islam in Afghanistan and Iraq. During that same time, several more trillion in Western loot were dumped into the maw of Muslim coffers in the wealth transfer of hard cash for oil – and Muslims hate us now more than they ever have.
Recently a two-bit pastor merely threatened to burn the Islamic terror manual known as the Koran, the mere threat of which was sufficient to nearly unhinge the entire Muslim world, and undo any vestige of goodwill which lingers after all our struggle and effort.
I also must mention that in addition to nearly bankrupting the bank “winning their hearts and minds”, over $7 billion additionally flowed from our generous purses to Muslims after two huge disasters; the Indonesian tsunami and the earlier Pakistani earthquake. But nevertheless, Indolent Muslims seem more disposed to dwell on real and imagined flaws of the hated “infidel” than to be well disposed to us for any of it.
Isn’t it time we stop wasting our money and efforts trying to make friends with this poisonous snake? Isn’t it time we stop lying to ourselves about the inevitable trajectory Islamic hatred is taking? Isn’t it time we stop pretending that our policies have worked?
At every opportunity, Western money and technology in the hands of Muslims is perverted into Jihad against us. Isn’t it time we stop GIVING them the rope with which they will hang us?

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By Leefeller, October 3, 2010 at 6:52 am Link to this comment

Geeze, I hope the fuel was not paid for yet!

It is so nice to know the USA has not lost its touch to pay off people who they cannot trust, or is this just an excuse to go into Pakistan, the investment needs to be protected.

The only difference it seems, far as I know, the USA did not send oodles of money into North Vietnam we just wasted it on South Vietnam.

Well this keeps the economy going have to build new tanker trucks and pump more fuel? I suppose the homeless starving people In Pakistan, watching tanker trucks meandering through their flooded country must feel some sort of discontent wondering why they are not food supply trucks.

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By basho, October 2, 2010 at 12:48 am Link to this comment

“It is not clear if it is linked to a cross-border air strike by Nato that killed three Pakistani troops.”

there’s a war on, nitwit.

1+1=2

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By Arabian Sinbad, October 1, 2010 at 8:34 pm Link to this comment

I join the three previous commentators in saluting the courageous freedom-fighters who carried out this daring act. I look forward to more courageous acts like this, for only such operations would have the possible effect of bringing the politicians, who send these terrorist NATO forces, to their senses as the cost in blood and treasure keeps mounting for those colonial occupiers of others’ people land.

The more of these daring operations, the closer we get to ending this criminal war now raging for almost a decade.

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By LocalHero, October 1, 2010 at 7:17 pm Link to this comment

Now that’s a movement I can get behind!

Well done Pakistani freedom-fighters!

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By Big B, October 1, 2010 at 12:31 pm Link to this comment

How dare the “enemy” shoot back? Have they not read the press release, we are the good guys, they are supposed to bow down before and give up.

war is all hell, ain’t it?

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By FRTothus, October 1, 2010 at 11:50 am Link to this comment

Strength to the Pakistanis. Please let them be successful in cutting off US supply lines, permanently. Maybe they can end the war of terror the American people themselves cannot make their own government end. Maybe they can make the damned Yankee go home where he belongs, or go bomb and murder someone else’s civilians.

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