Posted on 12/07/2008 6:41:55 AM PST by PotatoHeadMick
Hundreds of Taliban fighters have stormed a crucial Nato depot outside the Pakistani city of Peshawar, destroying over 100 lorries which would have taken supplies to American and British forces in Afghanistan. The gunmen overpowered and disarmed the security guards, before setting fire to the vehicles, many of which were laden with Humvee armoured cars intended for Western forces.
About three quarters of all the ammunition, food, weapons and other supplies needed by Nato's troops in Afghanistan, including 8,000 British soldiers, pass through Pakistan. The Taliban have clearly identified this route as a crucial vulnerability.
Most supplies, including fuel, are unloaded in Karachi on the Arabian Sea and then carried along main roads through Pakistan and into Afghanistan via the Khyber Pass. The depot in Peshawar, the nearest city to the Pass which crosses the north-west frontier into Afghanistan, is a vital link in this chain.
The latest attack was a double victory for the Taliban.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
It'll be interesting how the Obama faced with reality responds to the real world...
This report makes me sick to my stomach. Oh No.
God protect our forces overseas, especially those in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Not those expensive HumVees!!! Terrible. Who was supposed to be guarding the supplies?
Anyone think that A-10 Combat Air Patrols would be effective in protecting these sites?
crucial supplies, are support by the established media
they never had that
that was destroyed long ago
Security Guards were overpowered by taking a really long nap.
NATO and the UN always get it right. WRONG!
Pakistan is sending the U.S. a message.
I wonder where the gun ships were?
Obviously they guard their culture of death over there, tying our hands.
It’s like antispanking laws, parents cannot counter the government or liberal culture of exploitation by teaching their children better. Self employment, self defense, national defense, all of this is not PC. We have to be multi cultural and pro UN homo losers.
“Let me make this clear. There are terrorists holed up in those mountains who murdered 3,000 Americans,” Obama said.
“They are plotting to strike again . . . If we have actionable intelligence about high-value terrorist targets and President Musharraf won’t act, we will.”
I think as the islamic radicals expand their sphere of influence in an ever widing circle, it lends itself more easily to a solution by B-53 (Mk-53) High yield strategic thermonuclear bomb.
Anyone think that A-10 Combat Air Patrols would be effective in protecting these sites?
Yes
Attack was in Pakistan. No combat air patrols there. Heck they complain when an occassional house blows up in Waziristan
“Pakistan is sending the U.S. a message.”
>>>>>>.................
roger that
and our responce will be??? how about “NUTS”?
Meh.
Islamic “youth” destroy more than that number of trucks and cars in France in any given week. The Taliban are a bit behind here.
I agree. We need to send a message. You are for us or against us. No Pu$$y footin’ Well the only good side is America will have to build a few more Humvees LOL
I agree. We need to send a message. You are for us or against us. No Pu$$y footin’ Well the only good side is America will have to build a few more Humvees LOL
I agree. We need to send a message. You are for us or against us. No Pu$$y footin’ Well the only good side is America will have to build a few more Humvees LOL
They know that 0bama is a poseur.
There is real danger that 0bama will try to act tough without thinking through the consequences.
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