Zarif Nazar, Charles Recknagel
Radio Free Europe
November 14, 2009
[efoods]When Taliban fighters hijacked two NATO fuel tankers along the new northern supply route into Afghanistan earlier this month, they generated international headlines.
NATO planes detected the militants after the vehicles stalled in a riverbed, and the commander of the German troops in Konduz Province ordered an air strike that killed scores of civilians and fighters who had gathered there, possibly to siphon off fuel.
The September 4 incident was surprising not only for the number of victims, but also because of where it took place. Not in the south or east, where Afghanistan’s “hot” war is being fought, but where the situation is supposed to be quiet.
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