Wednesday - July 18, 2012
Up In Smoke In Afghanistan
Eighteen fuel trucks and four supply vehicles were parked in Aibak, the capital of Samangan province, when a bomb ripped through them, wounding one person, local police said.
“At 2 a.m. the mujahideen attacked the invader NATO trucks,” the Taliban said in a statement, referring to the wagons which had been driven from Uzbekistan to Afghanistan’s north.
The trucks were attacked in the same province where prominent anti-Taliban lawmaker Ahmad Khan Samangani was killed on Saturday at his daughter’s wedding, in a suicide bomb attack that killed 22 other guests.
“We put explosives on a fuel tanker. When it exploded, we fired on the trucks,” Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid told The Associated Press in a telephone call.
Sidiq Azizi, a spokesman for the province, said many tankers and semi-trailers caught fire after the bomb went off around 2 a.m.
By mid-day, heavy black smoke still poured from the Rabatak area of the province where the truckers had stopped to rest. Firefighters were spraying water on the burning vehicles.
“There was a big boom,” Azizi said. “It’s possible that is was a magnetic bomb from insurgents. We are investigating.”
“I counted 20 fuel tankers burning. There is still a very big fire,” said Azizi, who was at the scene. “The weather is very hot and it’s hard to get close to the fire.”
The tankers in the convoy were transporting fuel south toward the Afghan capital, Kabul, from neighboring Uzbekistan to the north.
Earlier this week, three NATO supply trucks were destroyed by militants in Sayd Abad district of Wardak province in eastern Afghanistan.
I don’t see the point of our being in Afghanistan any more. Is there any benefit in it for us? Was there ever, after the first 6 months? Sure, after we crushed the insurgents in Iraq the few left and went north. Then we crushed them their, or so it seemed. But that was a couple years ago, and somebody over there is still blowing up our stuff and killing our guys. 172 or more so far just this year.
The Brits have announced they are planning another troop drawdown there. What about us?
Isn’t it time to end Obama’s War??
Posted by Drew458
on 07/18/2012 at 11:37 AM
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