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Taliban claim deadly NATO tanker blaze in Pakistan
MIRANSHAH, Pakistan (AFP) Pakistani Taliban Militants Monday claimed two fiery attacks on Afghanistan-bound NATO supply convoys in which nearly 60 trucks have been torched in three days -- and vowed more to come. At least three people were killed when 20 NATO oil tankers were set ablaze by attackers armed with Molotov cocktails near the Pakistani capital, as a separate Blockade of a main land route for NATO supplies continued for a fifth day. Television pictures showed towers of flame...

Taliban claim deadly NATO tanker blaze in Pakistan
Pakistani Taliban Militants Monday claimed two fiery attacks on Afghanistan-bound NATO supply convoys in which nearly 60 trucks have been torched in three days -- and vowed more to come. At least three people were killed when 20 NATO Oil tankers were set ablaze by attackers armed with Molotov cocktails near the Pakistani capital, as a separate Blockade of a main land route for NATO supplies continued for a fifth day. Television pictures showed towers of flame springing from the trucks, which...

Militants set NATO fuel tankers ablaze in Pakistan, killing 3 as key border pass remains closed
Hours after the predawn assault, gunmen attacked and burned two other trucks loaded with NATO supplies in the southwestern province of Baluchistan, killing one driver, police reported. The attacks came on the fourth day of a Blockade on NATO convoys at the Torkham border crossing northwest of Islamabad, a key entry point for war supplies that are shipped to Pakistan then trucked across the country to Afghanistan. The closure followed NATO airstrikes on Pakistani soil, one of which killed three...

NATO Tankers Attacked in Pakistan
Pakistani Taliban Militants claimed responsibility Monday for two attacks on Afghan-bound NATO supply convoys in which nearly 60 trucks have been torched in three days -- and vowed more to come.

Taliban claim attacks on NATO convoys in Pakistan
MIRANSHAH, Pakistan (AFP) – Pakistani Taliban on Monday claimed responsibility for two Attacks on NATO supply convoys in Pakistan and threatened to carry out more. "We accept responsibility for the Attacks on the NATO supply trucks and tankers," Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) spokesman Azam Tariq told AFP. "I am talking about Attacks both in Sindh and in Islamabad," he said in a telephone call from an undisclosed location. "We will carry out more such Attacks in...

Taliban claim attacks on NATO convoys in Pakistan
Pakistani Taliban on Monday claimed responsibility for two Attacks on NATO supply convoys in Pakistan and threatened to carry out more. "We accept responsibility for the Attacks on the NATO supply trucks and tankers," Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) spokesman Azam Tariq told AFP. "I am talking about Attacks both in Sindh and in Islamabad," he said in a telephone call from an undisclosed location. "We will carry out more such Attacks in future. We will not allow the use of Pakistani soil as a...

Taliban claim attacks on Nato supply convoys in Pakistan (and threaten to carry out more)
Source: AFP MIRANSHAH, Pakistan Pakistani Taliban on Monday claimed responsibility for two recent attacks on NATO supply convoys in Pakistan and threatened to carry out more, a spokesman said. "We accept responsibility for the attacks on the NATO supply trucks and tankers," Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) spokesman Azam Tariq told AFP. "I am talking about attacks both in Sindh and in Islamabad," he said in a telephone call from an undisclosed location. "We will carry out more such attacks...

Taliban claim attacks on Nato supply convoys in Pakistan
MIRAMSHAH: Pakistani Taliban on Monday claimed responsibility for two recent attacks on NATO supply convoys in Pakistan and threatened to carry out more, a spokesman said. We accept responsibility for the attacks on the NATO supply trucks and tankers, Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) spokesman Azam Tariq told AFP. I am talking about attacks both in Sindh and in Islamabad, he said in a telephone call from an undisclosed location. We will carry out more such attacks in future. We...

Taliban claim attacks on NATO convoys in Pakistan
MIRANSHAH, Pakistan — Pakistani Taliban on Monday claimed responsibility for two recent attacks on NATO supply convoys in Pakistan and threatened to carry out more, a spokesman said. "We accept responsibility for the attacks on the NATO supply trucks and tankers," Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) spokesman Azam Tariq told AFP. "I am talking about attacks both in Sindh and in Islamabad," he said in a telephone call from an undisclosed location. "We will carry out more such attacks in...

Taliban attacks NATO supply trucks in Pakistan
Islamabad – The Pakistani Taliban claimed responsibility Monday for a pre-dawn attack on tankers carrying fuel to Afghanistan for U.S. and other NATO forces, left vulnerable on the side of the road after Pakistan shut down a key border crossing. About a dozen Militants peppered the vehicles parked at a truck stop on the outskirts of the capital Islamabad with automatic gunfire. Some 20 trucks went up in flames and four people were killed and seven injured, authorities said. Hours later,...

Taliban Attacks NATO Supply Trucks In Pakistan
The Pakistani Taliban claimed responsibility Monday for a pre-dawn Attack on tankers carrying fuel to Afghanistan for U.S. and other NATO forces, vowing to continue raiding supply lines in Pakistan until they are shut down completely. The Attack came on a supply line that has been stalled because of a temporary border closing imposed by Pakistani authorities after a NATO Helicopter Attack killed three Pakistan Troops last week. It was the third such Attack since Friday, and seemed certain to...

Taliban Again Attacks NATO Supply Trucks in Pakistan
Monday, October 04, 2010 By Zarar Khan, Associated Press Pakistani fire fighters struggle to extinguish burning oil tankers after Militants attacked a terminal in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, on Monday, Oct. 4, 2010. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed) Islamabad (AP) - The Pakistani Taliban claimed responsibility Monday for a pre-dawn Attack on tankers carrying fuel to Afghanistan for U.S. and other NATO forces, vowing to continue raiding supply lines in Pakistan until they are shut down completely. The Attack...

Pakistan Taliban claims responsibility for Nato convoy attack
The Pakistan Taliban has claimed responsibility for an attack on tankers carrying oil for NATO and US Troops to Afghanistan.

Daily brief: Taliban attack NATO supply trucks in Pakistan
Attacks on NATO supply lines continue A spokesman for the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan has taken responsibility for Friday's attack on NATO tankers in Sindh and for another attack early this morning on the outskirts of Islamabad in which gunmen shot up about 20 NATO trucks, killing at least four ( AP , The News , AP , AFP , AJE , WSJ , Geo , Tel , Guardian , Pajhwok ). The TTP claims to have set up a new wing specifically to focus on attacking NATO supply lines ( AP , BBC ). There have...

Taliban attacks NATO trucks in Pakistan
AP The Pakistani Taliban have claimed responsibility for a pre-dawn Attack on tankers carrying fuel to Afghanistan for US and other NATO forces left vulnerable on the side of the road after Pakistan shut down a key border crossing. About a dozen Militants peppered the vehicles parked at a truck stop on the outskirts of the capital, Islamabad, with automatic gunfire. About 20 trucks went up in flames and four people were killed and seven injured, authorities said. Hours later, gunmen attacked...

Gunmen attack NATO fuel tankers in Pakistan
Sunday, Oct. 3, 2010 Islamabad Three people were killed Monday and eight others wounded when about 20 NATO oil tankers were attacked and set ablaze in the Pakistani capital, a police emergency official told AFP. Television pictures showed a towering inferno of fire coming from the trucks that were filling up just outside Islamabad en route to Afghanistan when unknown assailants attacked the convoy with guns and molotov cocktails. Three people have died, eight are injured. They have all...

Gunmen attack NATO fuel tankers in Pakistan
By Kamran Haider Islamabad | Sun Oct 3, 2010 7:00pm EDT Islamabad (Reuters) - Gunmen attacked tankers in Islamabad on Monday transporting fuel to coalition Troops in Afghanistan, Police said, a move likely to delay the reopening of a supply route through Pakistan. "There were at least 12 men carrying arms. They first opened fire and killed three guards and then set tankers on fire," senior Police Officer Mirwaiz Niaz told Reuters. Thirteen tankers were burned, he said. Pakistan will re-open a...

Pakistan militants vow more attacks on NATO supplies
Islamabad - Pakistan's Taliban on Monday vowed more Attacks on tankers transporting fuel to NATO Troops in Afghanistan, a move likely to prolong the closure of a vital supply route and further strain ties with ally Washington. Angered by repeated Attacks by NATO helicopters on Militant targets within its borders, Pakistan blocked one of the supply routes for NATO Troops in Afghanistan after one strike killed three Pakistani Soldiers last week in the western Kurram region. The incursions and the...

Key NATO supply route hit again in Pakistan
Islamabad — Islamist Militants attacked and set fire to at least 20 tankers carrying oil for NATO and U.S. Troops in Afghanistan on Monday, the third such strike inside Pakistan in as many days, Police said. The Attack not far from the capital Islamabad took place on a supply line that has been stalled because of a temporary border closing imposed by Pakistani authorities to Protest a NATO Helicopter Attack that killed three Pakistan Troops last week. It will raise the stakes in the...

Pakistan warns against more NATO raids
Islamabad, Pakistan — Pakistan has told NATO leaders it will stop protecting U.S. and NATO supply lines to Afghanistan if Foreign Aircraft stage further cross-border attacks against fleeing Militants, security officials said Tuesday. If carried out, such a threat would have major consequences on the War in Afghanistan as well as on Pakistan's relationship with the United States, which is vitally important for both nations. Analysts said there was little or no chance of Islamabad carrying...

Gunmen attack NATO fuel tankers in Pakistan
Islamabad (Reuters) – Gunmen attacked tankers in Islamabad on Monday transporting fuel to coalition Troops in Afghanistan, Police said, a move likely to delay the reopening of a supply route through Pakistan. "There were at least 12 men carrying arms. They first opened fire and killed three guards and then set tankers on fire," senior Police Officer Mirwaiz Niaz told Reuters. Thirteen tankers were burned, he said. Pakistan will re-open a supply route for coalition Troops in...

3 killed in attack on NATO fuel trucks in Pakistan
Reporting from Islamabad, Pakistan — An attack by Taliban Militants on trucks supplying NATO forces in Afghanistan killed three people on the outskirts of the Pakistani capital early Monday and destroyed at least four fuel tankers, police said. Gunmen opened fire on tankers parked at a truck stop near Islamabad , causing several to Burst into Flames. In addition to those destroyed, 13 were damaged in the early-morning attack, said Bin Yamin, deputy inspector general of Islamabad...

Pakistan to reopen NATO supply line 'relatively quickly'
A main land route used by NATO to deliver supplies to Troops in Afghanistan will reopen "relatively quickly", Pakistan said Sunday, as Islamabad sent a team to Probe a cross-border attack. Pakistan blocked the crossing in its volatile northwest on Thursday after a NATO Helicopter strike that Islamabad says killed three of its Soldiers. The alliance said it shot back in self-defence. After a flurry of phone calls and pressure from ally Washington, Hussain Haqqani, Pakistan's ambassador to...

NATO urges Pakistan to reopen route
AFP NATO chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen has urged Pakistan to reopen a key Afghanistan supply route "as soon as possible" and expressed regret for the deaths of Pakistani Troops in a NATO strike. Pakistan has blocked a land route for NATO convoys carrying supplies to neighbouring Afghanistan since Thursday after officials blamed a cross-border NATO Helicopter attack for the deaths of three Pakistani Soldiers. "I expressed my regrets for the incident last week in which Pakistani Soldiers lost their...