Attacks on Khyber trucking threaten US supply line
                   
newsday.com     20-May-2008            

KHYBER AGENCY, Pakistan - Many of the trucks carry fuel and other material for foreign troops based in Afghanistan. U.S. and NATO officials play down their losses in these arid mountains of northwestern Pakistan -- even though the local arms bazaar offers U.S.-made assault rifles and Beretta... [read full story]                    


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