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| Police recovers stolen Nato containers in Peshawar |
| 2010-10-21 |
| [Dawn] Pak police said Wednesday they had recovered four Nato transport containers loaded with US Army jackets and laptop computers that had been stolen while on their way to Afghanistan. The containers were found parked at a flour mill on the outskirts of the northwestern city of Beautiful Downtown Peshawar, area police chief Sabir Khan said. The containers went missing recently, he said, but gave no date. Four people, including a guard at the mill, have been detained, he said. Police showed the loot to news hounds. An AFP news hound said the containers were loaded with the US Army jackets, each inscribed with individuals' names, stationery, coils of cable and laptops. The bulk of Nato supplies trucked overland into Afghanistan are shipped to Pakistain's southern port of Karachi and driven to the northwestern crossing at Torkham or a southwestern crossing at Chaman. More than 150,000 US and Nato troops are fighting against a nine-year Taliban insurgency in Afghanistan that is now at its deadliest. Talibs drastically escalated attacks on Nato convoys in Pakistain earlier this month during an 11-day closure of the Torkham border. Pakistain re-opened the crossing to Nato supplies on October 10, after the United States apologised for a cross-border Nato helicopter raid that killed two Pak soldiers and damaged US-Pak relations. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 I just had an evil thought, Check those containers verrrry carfulllly for booby traps. So far the enemy (Enemies?) are prone to IEDing whatever they can get their hands on. |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2010-10-21 23:12 |