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Taliban Sets 400 'NATO-Supplying' Oil Tankers Ablaze In Afghanistan
With the "Islamic State" grabbing all the headlines, it appears the Taliban have had enough. As Reuters reports, Taliban insurgents set fire on Saturday to about 400 oil tanker trucks supplying fuel for NATO forces in an attack just outside the Afghan capital Kabul, police said. It was unclear how the fire was started. Some Afghan media reported that insurgents had fired rockets at the tankers late on Friday. The attack precedes Monday's preliminary announcement of Afghanistan's presidential election winner - in which both sides have accused the other of mass fraud. The Taliban had vowed to disrupt the process.
And the aftermath...
Television footage showed black smoke billowing above the site of the attack, with the charred wreckage of dozens of trucks scattered around a vast parking space.
The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack, saying the trucks carried fuel intended for U.S.-led NATO forces.
It was unclear how the fire was started. Some Afghan media reported that insurgents had fired rockets at the tankers late on Friday. There were no immediate reports of casualties.
Stunning video of the blaze...
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ahh, democracy! More boots on the ground needed back in Afghanistan?
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*everyone* likes July 4th fireworks... Al-kaboomi!
So maybe I should lock in the air fare for my friend's destination wedding...
Just when you thought that ISIS/CIA had a lock on the 2014 Global Terror Awards...
check south to see what the "next" game in town coming to a theater near you.... should just about finish us off
http://nationalreport.net/crisis-border-cdc-investigates-mystery-illness...
Wait!
Aren't we out of Afghanistan?
That's what fearless leaders said, so what's with the .....
Ohneverthefuckmind
The US is the process of getting out of Afghanistan
and the Taliban is giving a little extra push
lets see, the pedophile society land that supplies the world with heroin......... and worst of all, or deservedly, is infected with the muslim curse.... may the elites destroy it fully when depopulation time is here.
So nice of them to join in the 4th of July celebrations. I hear dollars burn even hotter.
Brings back warm memories of my Ford Pinto.
...and the evacuation of Saigon. Because evacuation of Afghanistan will be even bigger mess then evacuation of Saigon. Especially after that Pakistani declaration, in which Pakistan will close its airspace in front of all NATO military plane (something similar did Russia). The "funny" thing is, it will be payback from Pakistan (the droning of civilians) and from China (South China sea tension and interfering into their matters).
$400 a gallon...
ya know what? fuck NATO. I'm no Taliban supporter or any of that....but didn't we create the fucking Taliban? Everything is such a fucked up, corrupt farce. I'm sick of it all.
@ Kilguy ' . . . fever , nausea, vomiting, hatred and paranoia . . ' ; I'm feeling ALL of those symptoms/emotions here in the UK. Wha'sUp?
Fake news site, though admittedly a very irresponsible fake news site.
I agree, it looks like everything is aligning into position to take us out.
This is not really a terrorist attack is it? A force at war with another force attacking the enemy's supply route is just strategic thinking is it not?
Bullish for CAT & CMI
bullish for everything, when can I start buying more ES futures?
I have a good idea in a war zone lets group a heap of our fuel tankers together.
You can't make this shit up. Where are the five year olds when you need them.
They are in the sandbox, spacing their toy trucks appropriately.
Monday morning some of the older kids at KBR will have no-bid contract to provide emergency tanker cover... kaching kaching! (Taliban thinking ahead bought some short dated call options)
Cheney bought more Thursday, he got a good tip...
500 would be even more Bullish, but the 'market' settles for what it can get.
Aside from watching the tv show Emergency a lot as a kid and loving it, I don't know much about firefighting I admit, but I don't know if that firehose is doing much at the 35 second mark of the video. If that happened in my country after having been invaded and conquered for 10+ years I'd be more inclined to observe the fire and leave it to the conquering forces and their puppet government to put out.
Unless I was getting paid about 250 million dollars a trip there is NO way I'd be driving oil tankers for the NATO forces in a country that is just going to get taken over again by the Taliban the second the US abandons the last base there.
They are some brave or crazy fuckers in that country.
GH, you're correct about those people and their firehoses. There IS a time to just let it burn. Are you familiar with a BLEVE? If not, you can watch this video (and others).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xf3WKTwHpIU
the real beauty seems to be they are trying to put out an oil fire with water....
>>>They are some brave or crazy fuckers in that country.
The adjective of choice is probably "desperate".
Most likely they are trying to save up enough dollars to get the hell out of there.
"It was unclear how the fire was started." But it MUST have been TEH TALIBANZ! Who else in that region would possibly want to harm US assets?!
Just about anyone sane in that country, is my guess. Try as America may, they don't seem to get the lesson of the "high moral ground" of democracy imparted on them through drone strikes on civilians.
maybe they was not supplying fuel for movement.
maybe it was cia chemicals for mi6,cia and the mossad heroin production a multi billion dollar drug industry needs a lot chemicals get my drifts.
we're up to 5 hasbara trolls.
No down vote but I highly doubt they are refining it there in the field. It is a warzone and the safest (for the product) way is to get it out then process it.
Brilliant strategy - putting them all together, closely packed...these trucks were screaming "hit me, I'm easy..." Was hitchhiking in Vietnam when a fellow soldier driving a JP4 tanker stopped and picked me up - that dude was one raw nerve, severely rubbed...
You really have to wonder at the stupidity...........
Read up on Pearl Harbor. Planes were parked neatly in rows. One pass would take out entire an entire squadron.
Are they sure it was the Taliban?
They may have just been GM trucks that spontaneously combusted.
If they had only pledged allegiance to Abu Baghdadi Bob on time...this would never have been reported by the media.
shit.. Gas is going to be Over $4 a Gallon on monday now FOR SURE!!!!!!
Cattender: shit.. Gas is going to be Over $4 a Gallon on monday now FOR SURE!!!!!!
No, it won't have any effect on the world price. NATO will just have to pay double for the replacement shipment, and probably replace all those shiny new tankers that just got burned.
Don't know where you live, but out here, regular this morning was 4.09 ish... Saw only one discount place below at 3.95... lines in the street because it was inordinately cheap.
Booyah!
"The Wonders of Energy Self-Sufficiency"
-Tommorrowland, Disney World, 1955
Uncle Scam is going to have to pay more than the $50 per gallon currently charged.
Just as well its only fiat,not money.
Why are we still there?
To keep the Pakis in, the Russians down and the Chinks and Wogs out.
Blast out of the past..... I haven't heard the term "Wogs" in years.
The poppies.
What about the poppies?! Won't somebody PLEASE think of the poppies?
Always consult with an expert when dealing with droogs!
Defense orders for gdp
I'd sure hate to be the Taliban when Al Gore hears about this !!!
The MSM seem to have missed this story...
The foot of hail that fell in Spain on the 3rd of July turned the tomato crop into ketchup.
http://iceagenow.info/2014/07/foot-35-cm-hail-spain-videos/
A foot of ICE in the summer is a sure sign of AGW. Please zh'ers do not open your fridge door for the next week, you will only make this situation worse...
And AGW hysterics (NOAA this time) busted again for screwing around with the data:
Two years ago during the scorching summer of 2012, July 1936 lost its place on the leaderboard and July 2012 became the hottest month on record in the United States. Now, as if by magic, and according to NOAA’s own data, July 1936 is now the hottest month on record again. The past, present, and future all seems to be “adjustable” in NOAA’s world. See the examples below.
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2014/06/29/noaas-temperature-control-knob-for-the-past-the-present-and-maybe-the-future-july-1936-now-hottest-month-again/
Somebody turn off the AC, I'm a little chilly ;-)
Maybe Flak could comment,if he has finished doctoring this June's data ,that is.
Don't want to keep the Quackmeister from his work.
Probably catching some ZZZZZZZZZs
Bueller, Buelller, Proofreder?
LOL
Alex Jones interviews Lord Monckton at 50 minutes in
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NHJxdyEdqM
great interview worth listening to. The good Lord (couldn't resist) claims that temperatures haven't increased in 18 years and the entire affair is over control of you and I. Say it ain't so !!!
Kind of ironic when one considers that the other motivating factor for invading Afghanistan was a pipeline.
So if we follow the market logic, this means oil prices will be lower...
Just dont burn the Heroin !!!!
They do not send those by ground.
Hmm, camels with wings then??
The Pearl Harbor approach.
Reminds me of Battleship Row.
Historicly, it is easier to get into Afghanistan than it is to get out. Ask the Brits about that.
Last summer in Alaska, l met two former USMC who served in Afghanistan.
I asked them what they did there?
Guarded the poppy convoys and fields, they said.
Thank God the heroin is safe.
another genius idea in military strategy..... nose-to-tail highly flammable tankers.... in an area known for insurgent rocket attacks.... what could go wrong ? .... anyone ? anyone ?
Maybe, just maybe the Taliban do not want ' Our Brave Boys ' to leave the country!
Do I require a Sarc Tag?
The tankers get to stay.....
Paul Krugman is going orgasmic as his economic solution is actually happening.......
Just the thought of krug rubbing one off disgusts me.
Krugman gets a war boner...
America is sure making friends all over the world. Dear, dear.
Not to worry. They are filming a new Mad Max movie.
COSCO!!
Can anyone calculate the total fuel costs alone? Not to mention the huge detours these tankers have to make in finding a ' friendly ' route into the country.
No worries though I am fully confident the Defence ( snigger ) Department USSA and the EU can finger fuck us tax-payers at the pump or elsewhere to cover this one of many losses.
We should demand a cut of the POPPY income. Can I have mine in Hard Assets please?
Torch job for insurance purposes
Times of India is saying 200 trucks.
Yep AJ
I.S. have the other 200.
Meanwhile Ukraine parliament pasees first reading of a bill to allow western oil companies to own/operate Ukrainian pipelines: http://rt.com/business/170436-ukraine-pipes-eu-us/
Can't make this shit up.
Afghanistan will revert to utter barbarism a week after the last U.S. soldier leaves. If there are any recoverable minerals, the Chinese will occupy the country, massacre the native population, and replace them with Han Chinese. The right-thinking people of the world will then take decisive action: they'll change their FREE TIBET bumper stickers and hashtags to say FREE TIBET AND AFGHANISTAN.
What does the A stand for Dave? ARSEHOLE I presume.
I put the I.S on a par with the zombie drug fuelled foreign occupation in the country in terms of barbarism.
The Taliban are fighting for the right to govern their OWN country like ANY invaded UNSHEEPMANLIKE peoples would do.
Tip:- Stay the fuck away from MSM NEWS & HOLLYWOOD FILM
Good, progress in Afghanistan, you really think the chinese will want anything to do with Afghanistan after what has happened to the Russians and the Americans, get out and leave them to sort their own crap out, will end up with one bunch of arsholes killing another bunch of aresholes, why try and stand in the middle, some countries can be saved and some can't, Afghanistan, leave for a hundred years and then see where they are at.
To borrow a phrase: "Fuck NATO."
That's a LOT of tankers. Damn. Good idea to park 400 rigs filled with fuel in one lot. How many hours will it take for the Taliban to take back control when "we" leave....
Fear not as our beloved leader and horse face will have a new plan to accelerate the exponentially increasing rate of foreign policy failures.
What difference does it make?
Nonono... they were celebrating July 4th.
Another "Mission Accomplished."
The Afghan economy is improving - that's a helluva ROI for one RPG....
There goes Kerry's US heroin discounts. Damn.
Didn't the Warmaster-in-Chief just return from his "secret" trip to Afghanistan announcing victory to go along with a permanent occupation by 10,000 US troops? Looks like the next announcement will be to declare another 30,000-troop surge to go after those terrorist tanker burners. If one surge doesn't work, try another one that won't work. They never learn, they surge, and death takes another round of innocent bystanders...
Remember to park all your oil tankers close together because it makes it easier to count them on your fingers and toes.
Wow. This could be the quarter Afghan economy grows faster than US!
How many more tankers would have to burn for Afghanistan to grow faster than China?
Time for a no-bid contract for the Halliburton oil tanker division.
Many Americans have recently tried to block Afghanistan out of their thoughts, going forward little exist to be excited or optimist about. As with Vietnam it seems that we may have to settle with claims of "peace with honor" as we rush for the exit.
This reminds me of the experience the French had in Algeria. After years of effort the French did not achieve victory, they only proved how difficult and expensive some of these missions can become. The announcement by President Obama that American troops would be departing leaves many people wondering about the void we will be leaving and how it will be filled. It will be filled by BAD PEOPLE! More on this subject below.
http://brucewilds.blogspot.com/2013/08/afghanistans-very-bleak-future.html
nice job using up excess inventory
still doesn't make the Baltic Dry Index move up
400? Video says 200. Which is it or how did it escalate to 400?
bullish for the afghanistan objective whatever that is
and then there were the Afghans, who didn't know what they wanted, but were willing to fight for it anyway...
Did anyone bring marshmallows and hot dogs?
Everything Obama is involved with goes bad.
Time to try a Neutron Bomb.
Is DJ already moving?