U.S. really doesn't have a clue at this moment.
Another graphic example of how ****ed up things are in the Middle
East.
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"U.S. helicopter engines stolen en route to Pakistan ****t"
Reuters
Thursday, June 19, 2008; 3:47 AM
KABUL (Reuters) - Four U.S. helicopter engines worth more than $13
million have been stolen while they were being trucked from
Afghanistan to a ****t in Pakistan to be ****pped home, the U.S.
military said.
Most supplies for the U.S. military in landlocked Afghanistan,
including fuel, are trans****ted through Pakistan, and militants in
both Pakistan and Afghanistan have been stepping up attacks on
****pments.
A U.S. military spokesman said the engines were being trans****ted by a
Pakistani trucking company when they went missing some time in the
month before April 10.
It was not known if the ****pment went missing on the Afghan side of
the border or in Pakistan, Sergeant Mark Swart said on Thursday.
"We don't have the information on exactly where it disappeared. We
just know that it did not get to the ****t," he said.
The U.S. military declined to say what type of helicopters the engines
were for but said the ****pment was a part of a routine redeployment of
the 82nd Airborne Division.
Militants in Afghanistan and northwest Pakistan regularly attack
trucks carrying supplies for foreign forces in Afghanistan and the
dependence on routes through violence-plagued northwest Pakistan is a
concern for foreign forces.
Most supplies go through two crossing points on the Afghan-Pakistani
border, one at the Khyber pass and the other to the southwest, at the
Afghan town of Spin Boldak in Kandahar province.
NATO and Russia signed a land transit agreement in April allowing the
Western alliance to use Russian land to deliver non-lethal supplies to
its troops in Afghanistan.
(Re****ting by Jonathon Burch; Editing by Robert Birsel)
http://www.wa****ngtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/19/Ar2008061900319.html
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