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  • Taliban claims attacks on U.S., NATO supply trucks in Pakistan - AP, October 4, 2010
    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, gunmen attacked and burned two other trucks carrying NATO supplies in southwest Pakistan, killing the driver.
    There have been four such attacks since Pakistan last Thursday shuttered its main border crossing into Afghanistan to NATO supply convoys in apparent reaction to a series of alleged NATO incursions, including a helicopter attack that killed three Pakistani soldiers. Traffic has since been backing up at various points along the route from the southern port city of Karachi to the crossing at Torkham — where scores of trucks remain stranded and vulnerable to attack in the volatile Khyber Pass.
  • Nato contractors 'attacking own vehicles' in Pakistan - Riaz Sohail, BBC News, 6 October 2010
    Nato supply convoys travelling through Pakistan to Afghanistan have regularly come under attack in the past, but following Pakistan's decision to block their route through the Khyber Pass, they now face an even bigger security threat.
    Hundreds of tankers and trucks have been left stranded on highways and depots across Pakistan, with little or no security.
    Taliban militants have regularly been targeting the convoys, even when they are heavily protected.
    But many believe it is not just the militants who pose a security threat to the convoys.
    The owners of oil tankers being used to supply fuel to Nato in Afghanistan say some of the attacks on their convoys are suspicious.
    They say there is evidence to suggest that bombs have been planted in many of vehicles by the "Nato contractors" - individuals or companies who have been contracted by Nato to supply fuel and goods to forces in Afghanistan.
  • 25 NATO Supply Trucks Torched in Pakistan - CBS News, October 6, 2010
  • ‘We need another way in’: Nato supply routes blocked by Taleban attacks - The Times, October 7, 2010
  • Gunmen torch two Nato trucks in Pakistan - The Telegraph, 27 Feb 2011
  • NATO supply tankers attacked; 4 Policemen killed - May 02, 2011
    Eleven containers transporting supplies to NATO forces in Afghanistan were completely destroyed and Four policemen were killed in an attack on Sunday.
    11 containers transporting supplies to NATO forces in Afghanistan were completely destroyed when unidentified armed men fired rockets on NATO containers and the police check-post on Rawalpindi-Talagang Road near Dhalya Chowky. The attack took place in Pindi Gheb some 122 kilometres east of Islamabad
  • Pictures of the day: 23 August 2011 - The Telegraph, August 23, 2011
    Local residents watch burning NATO supply oil tankers following an attack by gunmen on the main highway at Kolpur village, 25 kilometres (15 miles) south of Quetta, the capital of the restive Baluchistan province. Gunmen on motorbikes in southwestern Pakistan set ablaze at least 19 oil tankers carrying fuel for US-led NATO forces in neighbouring Afghanistan.
  • War's deadliest month - Palm Beach Post, August 2011
    Caption: Onlookers watch NATO oil tankers, transporting fuel to forces in Afghanistan, burn following an attack by gunmen south of Quetta, the capital of restive Baluchistan province in Pakistan on August 22. (Babaras Khan/AFP/Getty Images)
  • 29 NATO supply trucks torched in Quetta - jazbablog, December 9, 2011
  • Al-Qaeda targeting American and NATO supply lines in Pakistan - The Examiner, August 10, 2012
    In a video posting on the internet on Thursday night August 9, 2012, al Qaeda’s spokesman for Pakistan, Ustad Ahmad Farooq issued a call for fighters to continue to attack vulnerable NATO supply lines in Pakistan.
    “On this occasion I urge our mujahid brothers from Karachi and Makran to Khyber that they must pay special attention to targeting American and NATO supply lines.”
  • Taliban destroy 37 Nato fuel trucks at Pak-Afghan border - Pakistan Today, June 19, 2014
    Afghan officials say three Taliban suicide bombers targeted NATO fuel trucks at the border with Pakistan, setting off a gunbattle with police guards.
  • Hundreds of fuel tankers caught fire in Taliban attack in Kabul- The Hindu, July 5, 2014
    At least 400 fuel tankers burned after Taliban fighters fired four rockets at a logistic compound in Paghman district of the capital, said Hashmat Stanekzai, a spokesman for the Kabul police.
    “The incident occurred in a parking area in Chawk-e-Arghandi at 10:30 p.m. [1800 GMT] on Friday night. As a result around 400 fuel tankers were torched,” he said.

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