Pakistan: Border blast sets NATO fuel trucks afire

[Zomby Woof]

Source: AP

CHAMAN, Pakistan – An explosion ripped through a line of trucks ferrying fuel to NATO troops in Afghanistan, setting several oil tankers ablaze Sunday at a backed-up Pakistani border crossing, police said.

The blast appeared to be the second terrorist attack Sunday in Pakistan and the second in a week to target a border crossing. Also Sunday, a suicide bomber targeted a police station in the northwestern Swat Valley, killing 15 cadets.

Local police chief Hasan Sardar said flames and smoke were billowing into the sky as authorities struggled to control the blaze Sunday night near the Chaman border crossing in Baluchistan province in Pakistan's southwest.

"It was a big explosion under one of the oil tankers that caused other vehicles to catch fire. The fire is spreading," Sardar told The Associated Press by phone.


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[ShortnFiery]

1. Every day our troops/allies are in the M.E., is another day of needless death and destruction.

What part of "THEY DON'T WANT US HERE" do we not copy? :crazy:

[IndianaGreen]

2. Obama's 'best and the brightest' are not different from Kennedy and Johnson's

Rather than a clean break with the past, we have embarked in another foolish endeavor that will only succeed in expanding Arlington National Cemetery.

[FarCenter]

3. Afghanistan is a landlocked country in Asia -- the logistics are impossible

"The U.S. has broken the second rule of war. That is, don't go fighting with your land army on the mainland of Asia. Rule One is don't march on Moscow. I developed these two rules myself."

Field Marshall Bernard Montgomery, speaking about the US adventure in Vietnam.

Afghanistan is much worse. We can't use our navy and ships to transport supplies and ammunitions to the forces in Afghanistan.

We had better keep the force small, because there is no way to get them out, except by airlift, leaving the equipment behind.

[Blandocyte]

4. Oh, man, I HATE when that happens