Taliban claim attacks on Nato supply convoys in Pakistan (and threaten to carry out more)

[Turborama]

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 in future. We will not allow the use of Pakistani soil as a supply route for NATO troops based in Afghanistan," he said.

"This is also to avenge drone attacks," he added.

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How come it's taken 9 years for the Pakistan Taliban to finally realize that to make the war machine in Afghanistan grind to a halt all they needed to do was cut its main artery?


Firefighters tried to extinguish burning NATO supplies oil tankers after an attack outside
Islamabad on Monday.

NYT chose an interesting title for their use of the AP article on the latest attack: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/04/world/asia/04pstan.html">Trucks With Fuel for War Set Ablaze in Pakistan

This is the actual title AP used: http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hkiMxbHNH0BqgpWA2ZG6VD6wVTmAD9IKLSL00?docId=D9IKLSL00">Key NATO supply route hit again in Pakistan

Meanwhile: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=4558989&mesg_id=4562502">Pakistan-NATO Supply Standoff: No End In Sight

[Poll_Blind]

1. So that's something hovering around 40-50 TANKERS destroyed in just a few days.

Do they have some Tet-like holiday I am not aware of, or has the Pakistani government just dropped the leash?

To anybody: Where does this go from here?

PB

[defendandprotect]

2. US created the Taliban/Al Qaeda and was financing them up to the moment of 9/11 ....

and who knows what we're doing right now?

[Alamuti Lotus]

3. Re: how come it's taken 9 years? etc.

Pakistani Tehrik-i-Taliban is only a sorta-new resistance movement; it grew out of the Majlis-i-Muttahida, a political umbrella grouping foolish enough to think that just because it dominated the local democratic political process in the northwest provinces, that it might actually mean something to participate within a rigged system beyond hope of reform. They are not messing around with such delusions at the moment.
The convoys have been targetted with some regularity before, but the intensity that they are being targetted is a recent development.

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5. I guess someone didn't get their US taxpayer-financed bribe.

[madrchsod]

6. the game is over boys and girls if you can`t protect the supply lines..