Taliban blow up to 400 tanker trucks in Afghanistan

Posted on 05-07-2014 at 11:40 by sir_smokalot – 46 Comments”

In a missile attack on a convoy of tanker trucks during the night 400 NATO trucks destroyed by the flames. The havoc and conflagration is enormous.

The responsibility of the attack on a car park just outside the Afghan capital Kabul claimed by the Taliban. They fired four rockets at the collection of trucks, presumably accompanied by an upbeat endless string of the famous ” Allahu Akbbar’-mantra (because that is exactly what a deity approves: things blow up and people to bring to life), the combustible charge did the rest.

Earlier this week it was the airport of Kabul has been the target of a similar missile attack in the still unstable Afghanistan.

Attack on the tactically important tankkonvooien are more common. Regularly go with a fuel-loaded trucks in flames, a few years ago, still in great numbers in a pass between Pakistan and Afghanistan. The attack of last night do, however, have a sad record in terms of size, and not see that the Taliban are planning another keg to tap.

Emergency services were on the whole night to extinguish the fire, but the fire is not yet under control, says the BBC. A video with photographs is here (mirror).

Photo: screenshot from video WorldBreakingNews