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Militants attack Nato tanker convoy in Pakistan
BBC News ^ | 3 Oct 2010 | anon

Posted on 10/03/2010 2:19:46 PM PDT by BlackVeil

Suspected militants in Pakistan have attacked a convoy of oil tankers ... at least 20 tankers were set on fire in the attack close to the capital Islamabad. Unconfirmed reports say at least six people were killed in the attack. This is the latest in a series of atacks on Nato convoys travelling by land through Pakistan to supply Nato forces in Afghanistan.

(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: afghanistan; pakistan; supplies; taliban
These tankers are trucks which carry fuels.
1 posted on 10/03/2010 2:19:52 PM PDT by BlackVeil
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To: BlackVeil
"Suspected militants in Pakistan have attacked...

"Suspected"? "Have attacked". This is the BBC. Don't they speak English?

A brief English (mathematics) lesson.

"Suspected militants" + "Have Attacked" = CONFIRMED militants!

Idiots.....mutter, mutter, mutter...

(one small exception. they might be absolutely incompetent pacificists)

2 posted on 10/03/2010 2:27:55 PM PDT by BwanaNdege ("a comeuppance is due the arrogant elites" - Charles Krauthammer)
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To: BwanaNdege
Militants are loud, prickly, and opinionated.

This is way beyond that.

3 posted on 10/03/2010 3:12:04 PM PDT by lentulusgracchus
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To: AdmSmith; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; bigheadfred; blueyon; Convert from ECUSA; dervish; ...
Thanks BlackVeil. Not too sure we should rush to judgment -- the attacks were probably NOT Moslem militants outraged by Western imperialism, but rather the CIA and Mossad. /sarc
at least 20 tankers were set on fire in the attack close to the capital Islamabad

4 posted on 10/03/2010 5:27:20 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Democratic Underground... matters are worse, as their latest fund drive has come up short...)
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To: lentulusgracchus
"Militants are loud, prickly, and opinionated. This is way beyond that."

Definition of MILITANT

1: engaged in warfare or combat : fighting

2: aggressively active (as in a cause) : combative [militant conservationists][a militant attitude]

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/militant

5 posted on 10/03/2010 6:27:26 PM PDT by BwanaNdege ("a comeuppance is due the arrogant elites" - Charles Krauthammer)
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additional and sidebars:
6 posted on 10/03/2010 6:45:10 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Democratic Underground... matters are worse, as their latest fund drive has come up short...)
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To: BlackVeil

extortion.

Pakistan wants more money


7 posted on 10/04/2010 12:17:58 AM PDT by Talf
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To: SunkenCiv

Rubbish SCiv. I have told you before, and I tell you again. It is the UFOs.


8 posted on 10/04/2010 12:27:03 AM PDT by BlackVeil
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To: BlackVeil

Must be the Amish fighting against technology?


9 posted on 10/04/2010 7:27:22 AM PDT by battousai (Conservatives are racist? YES, I hate stupid white liberals.)
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To: BlackVeil
If we see militants robbing banks and blowing up trucks in the US of A then we should be able to knock out the pakis "Phahkistani's" with aplomb, get out the old 50 and kill before being killed. i wonder how the heck our on the ground folks are being resupplied; some of that gear is very, very necessary.
10 posted on 10/04/2010 10:26:59 AM PDT by Karliner (Now this is not the end. .... But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning, Churchill 1942)
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To: BlackVeil

Tinfoil headwear would make sense in the Moslem world.


11 posted on 10/04/2010 5:44:34 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Democratic Underground... matters are worse, as their latest fund drive has come up short...)
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