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| Afghan Taliban torch US vehicles at Pakistan border |
| 2013-12-19 |
| [Pak Daily Times] Taliban fighters wearing army uniforms attacked US military vehicles in a parking lot in eastern Afghanistan on Wednesday, killing at least one policeman and torching several trucks, an official said. The attackers detonated a boom-mobile outside the entrance to the facility at Torkham gate, a key crossing into Pakistain for NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A cautionary tale of cost-benefit analysis.... supplies leaving Afghanistan as the US-led coalition withdraws. "During the three-hour fight with security forces, one policeman was killed, five maimed. Several vehicles were torched," Nangarhar The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. provincial front man Ahmad Zia Abdulzai told AFP. "All attackers, who had military uniforms on, were killed." The parking lot was run by a private company and used by the US military for vehicles waiting to exit Afghanistan, he said. NATO shipments through Torkham are currently suspended after Pak activists opposed to US drone raids forcibly searched trucks and threatened drivers. A Taliban statement said their fighters had torched more than 30 US military vehicles on Wednesday. Militants on both sides of the Afghan border frequently target NATO supply lines, forcing NATO to shift towards alternative routes via Central Asian countries. |
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