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| Taliban Targets NATO Supplies at Torkham Port |
| 2014-06-20 |
| [Tolo News] A number of jacket wallahs attacked the NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A cautionary tale of cost-benefit analysis.... forces parking lot in Torkham Port border area in Nangarhar The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. province early Thursday morning, local officials said. Mohammad Hassan, Nangarhar police supply unit commander, said the incident occurred around 5 a.m. local time when four Taliban suicide bombers attacked NATO forces' supplies parking lot that was protected by the Afghan forces. "There were four suicide bombers," Hassan said. "One of the suicide bombers driving a corolla detonated his explosives and paved the way for the three others to enter the parking area and begin clashing with the Afghan forces." According to Hassan, roughly 37 vehicles caught on fire and two civilian drivers were maimed. The clash continued for two hours and ended around 7 a.m. local time, with smoke and fire coming from the parking lot, Hassan added. "All suicide bombers were bumped off by the Afghan forces," he detailed. The Taliban grabbed credit for the attack in a statement they released to the media. The Torkham-Jalalabad route was temporarily closed to the public for about four hours. This was not the first attack on NATO's supplies parking lot. A number of suicide bombers attacked NATO's parked supplies in Torkham Port exactly seven months ago on Wednesday December 18. Torkham is one of the major border crossings between Afghanistan and Pakistain, located on the Durand Line border. It connects Nangarhar province of Afghanistan with Pakistain's Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) and Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central... . |
| Posted by:Fred |