Rest in peace to the fallen. You know, I could not tell you how many Pakistani security guards have been killed over the years defending NATO shipments because no one tracks it. I would have to say it was high, but who knows….
I also wanted to highlight the brutality of this latest attack. It is one thing to kill your enemy, but to also desecrate their bodies like this? To me, this is the work of irhabists, and I do not see how any god–to include Allah, could ever condone such a thing. –Matt
Three guards beheaded at NATO terminal in Pakistan
April 1, 2011
Militants early Friday beheaded three security guards at a NATO truck terminal and damaged 10 oil tankers in a restive Pakistani tribal area bordering Afghanistan, officials said.
The murders took place at the NATO supply vehicle hub in Landi Kotal, a town in the restive Khyber tribal district where the bulk of supplies destined for foreign troops in Afghanistan pass through.
“Early Friday we found the beheaded bodies of three security guards from the NATO trucking terminal,” tribal administration official Iqbal Khan Khattak told AFP. (more…)