Taliban Attacks NATO Convoy

The Taliban made an attack on a NATO convoy on Thursday night in southeastern Afghanistan.  The Taliban set thirteen fuel trucks on fire, but only after killing three truck drivers.  Muhammed Jan Rasolyar, the provincial governor’s spokesman,  said that the attack took place in Shahra Safa in Zabul province.  The Taliban’s spokesman, Qan Yousef Ahmadi claimed responsibility of the attack on NATO forces and the convoy.  Insurgents are intensifying attacks on NATO supply convoys in Afghanistan and in Pakistan, which is where one of their alliance’s supply line starts.  The attack caused the route to temporarily be closed and not until American officials apologized did it open back up.  The reason it was closed was because NATO helicopters accidently shot and killed three Pakistani soldiers, thinking they were Taliban militants.

Well it is obvious that the Taliban means business.  They have attack NATO convoys before, but not on this scale or level.  They killed three people, truck drivers at that, and set thirteen fuel trucks ablaze.  Which if they sat that many trucks on fire, then there is a pretty good chance they set the whole convoy’s fuel supply up in flames.   NATO forces did kill three innocent Pakistani soldiers, but when someone is in that position, where their fellow troops, some who might be friends, are getting killed and attacked, then the adrenaline hits and I think it was a honest mistake killing those soldiers.  The fact of the matter is, Taliban militants are bringing it, and it is time for NATO to come up with a new strategy to get their supplies to their destination in a different way; a much safer way.

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