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Pakistani police officials and firefighters gather beside flames which erupted from the wreckage of NATO oil tankers following an unexploded timed device blast at a terminal on the outskirts of Peshawar on Feb 26. Four NATO tankers gutted by a series of blasts on Feb. 25 caught fire again when an unexploded timed device went off, wounding two people in northwestern Pakistan, police said. More than two dozen militants had struck a terminal on the outskirts of the northwestern city of Peshawar on Feb. 25 and planted devices on 12 out of 18 parked tankers carrying fuel for NATO troops in neighbouring Afghanistan.

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unexploded timed device blast ???? So, it DID explode and was not an UNexploded timed device blast?? I'm confused.

    Reply#1 - Sat Feb 26, 2011 9:27 PM EST

    LOL!

      #1.1 - Sat Feb 26, 2011 10:23 PM EST
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       Yeah right.? Looks like some bad boys got a chance to stick a device or 2 perhaps. But hell 1 would be all you need with a bunch of fuel tankers. Anyway it happened it's just more of the same right? right

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      Reply#2 - Sat Feb 26, 2011 9:43 PM EST

      same could be said for the drivers in Iraq. In my first tour 75% of convoys were TCN (third country national) during my second tour it was near 100%.

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