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Pakistani security officials walk beside burning NATO supplies oil tankers following a gunmen attack in Quetta on October 6, 2010. One person was killed when at least 10 NATO oil tankers were set ablaze in Quetta, senior police officials said — the fourth such attack in six days.
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Tourists from Japan Visited Bali Decrease PAGE 8 AFP PHOTO / BANARAS KHAN
Taliban blow up NATO tankers to avenge drone attacks ‘Spider-Man’ is off and running
Agence France Presse QUETTA, Pakistan – Suspected Taliban gunmen Wednesday set fire to NATO oil tankers in Pakistan for the fourth time in a week in an attack the Islamic extremist group claimed as revenge for deadly US drone attacks. The militants opened fire on a depot housing 40 tankers on the outskirts of the southwestern city of Quetta, killing a member of staff and destroying at least 10 vehicles, police official Hamid Shakeel told AFP.
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Taliban militants claimed the Quetta attack and other raids this week in which nearly 60 trucks were torched and three people died.
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militants linked to alleged terror plots against European cities. “We claim responsibility for attacking and torching NATO tankers in Quetta today,” Tehreek-e-Taliban
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Soros blames Germany for Europe “deflation spiral” O
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They vowed more attacks to disrupt NATO’s supply route through Pakistan and to avenge a new wave of US drone strikes targetting Taliban and Al-Qaeda
spokesman Azam Tariq told AFP. “We will further intensify attacks with the intensification of US drone strikes on us.” The United States has massively increased its drone campaign in Pakistan’s lawless northwest tribal region on the Afghan border, which it calls the global headquarters of Al-Qaeda and is a hub of militants fighting in Afghanistan.
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NEW YORK – Billionaire investor George Soros blamed Germany for leading the implementation of austerity measures that will throw the euro zone into a “deflation spiral.” Additional fiscal stimulus —and not fiscal discipline— is the way out of the crisis for both Europe and the United States, Soros said in a speech at Columbia University on Tuesday.
“Deficit reduction by a creditor country such as Germany is in direct contradiction of the lessons learnt from the Great Depression of the 1930s. It is liable to push Europe into a period of prolonged stagnation or worse,” Soros said. Germany is unlikely to change its ways, however, because its economy is doing well and because the difficulties of other countries can be blamed on structural rigidities, Soros said. Continued on page 6
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Philanthropist George Soros, chairman of Soros Fund Management, speaks on “The Sovereign Debt Problem” during a Sovereign Wealth Fund Conference on October 5, 2010 at Columbia University in New York.
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