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Gunmen Attack NATO Vehicles in NW Pakistan
[An Nahar] Gunmen opened fire Saturday on two trucks carrying NATO...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all.... vehicles in Pakistain's troubled northwest near the Afghan border, wounding two drivers. The trucks came under fire in Jamrud area of Khyber, one of seven districts that make up Pakistain's semi-autonomous tribal belt, as they crossed into Pakistain from Afghanistan. Pakistain is a key transit route for the NATO mission in landlocked Afghanistan. "The two trailers were on their way to Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... when gunnies attacked them at different locations in Jamrud and opened fire on them, wounding their drivers," a local intelligence official told Agence La Belle France Presse. A senior local administration official, Jehangir Azam Wazir, confirmed the incident and said the attackers had fled. No group has grabbed credit for the latest attack but the Taliban have in the past said they carried out such attacks to disrupt supplies for the U.S.-led international troops fighting in Afghanistan. Posted by: Fred 2013-11-10 |
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