Tuesday, September 1, 2009

Taliban destroy NATO supplies near Pak-Afghan border

Probably one of the weaker points of the war in Afghanistan is the logistics. Since Afghanistan is a landlocked country most of NATO's supplies are trucked through Pakistan and that includes territories with a heavy presence of taliban. The New York Times

CHAMAN, Pakistan (Reuters) - Suspected Taliban militants set fire to 18 container trucks carrying supplies for Western forces in neighboring Afghanistan in the Pakistani border town of Chaman, police said on Monday.

Some 300 trucks were parked near the border crossing in the country's southwest, as the border had been closed by Pakistani authorities since Friday in a row with their Afghan counterparts over the checking of trucks coming from landlocked Afghanistan.[...]

"They came on motorcycles. They first opened fire with guns, then threw a rocket-propelled grenade toward our vehicles and ran away," Akhtar Mohammad Niazi, a driver, told Reuters.

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