Insurgents attacked three convoys ferrying fuel and supplies to NATO...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Originally it was a mutual defense pact directed against an expansionist Soviet Union. In later years it evolved into a mechanism for picking the American pocket while criticizing the style of the American pants...
troops stationed in western and eastern Afghanistan, killing nine Afghan security guards and torching at least 15 fuel tankers, officials said Saturday.
| O brave Lions of Islam, attacking parked trucks! |
| And a good thing it is, too. After all, summer starts in two days, on the equinox, and then it'll be too late. |
Two of the attacks on the supply convoys took place Saturday in eastern Ghazni province, where a pair of roadside kabooms killed four Afghan security guards escorting the trucks to a nearby base for Polish troops, said provincial police chief Mohammed Hussain.
Insurgents also ambushed a NATO fuel convoy late Friday along the border between Herat and Farah provinces in the west, killing five Afghan guards. Seven other guards were maimed in the attack after Orcs and similar vermin opened fire on the convoy, said Abdul Rashied, a local police chief. Insurgents later set fire to 15 fuel tankers.
The vast majority of the fuel for the roughly 132,000 international troops is ferried in by truck from Pakistain before it is distributed to NATO forces across Afghanistan. It takes roughly 100 truckloads of fuel -- about 1.5 million gallons -- to keep coalitions forces moving for a single day.
Insurgents frequently target NATO fuel tankers in both Afghanistan and Pakistain, though the coalition said in February that fewer than one per cent of all supply convoys face thug attack.
| Only 1%? That's pretty good, given the corruption of the culture involved. |
...back at the scene of the crime, Lieutenant Queeg had an idea: there was a simple way to tell whether Manetti had been the triggerman -- just look at his shoes!...
NATO said Saturday its forces killed "several" Orcs and similar vermin in a gunbattle a day earlier in Ghazni, seizing rocket-propelled grenades, AK-47s and body armour.
NATO offered no further details, but Hussain, the Ghazni police chief, identified the dead cut-throats as eight Paks.
In the eastern city of Jalalabad, Orcs and similar vermin kidnapped a provincial council member for Pashtun-infested Logar province and three of his family members. Council member Abdulkhaliq Khairkhowa had been travelling along a main highway near Jalalabad late Friday night to attend a funeral the following day, said Dr. Abduwali Wakil, the chief of Pashtun-infested Logar's provincial council.
One man inside the car hid under the seats and was left behind by the kidnappers, Wakil said. That man later followed the kidnappers to the Torghar Mountains, a range of high peaks controlled by the Taliban, before returning to inform authorities, Wakil said.
Kidnapping of provincial council officials, who make governmental decisions for the province, remains common as Orcs and similar vermin and the Taliban view them as collaborators with Western forces.