New Northern Supply Routes For NATO In Afghanistan Have Been Negotiated With Five Countries

Northern Route Agreements Allowing More Supplies To Enter, Leave Afghanistan, Official Says -- Washington Post

The United States has negotiated approval from five countries to expand the so-called northern route for supplies to enter and leave Afghanistan, mitigating some of the damage done when Pakistan closed truck routes from the south in November in reaction to a NATO airstrike that killed 26 Pakistani soldiers.

“We now have a two-way approval to move equipment back out of Afghanistan,” Air Force Gen. William Fraser III, head of the U.S. Transport Command, told the Senate Armed Services Committee this week. The agreement will allow non-lethal supplies and equipment plus wheeled armored vehicles to enter and leave Afghanistan, something that was not permitted before, Fraser said.

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My Comment: The article does not say it openly, but this new route is to ship stuff out .... not in. Hint ....this is the coalition's subtle way of saying .... we are leaving.