Buying Uzbek Help For Afghanistan Withdrawal -- Deutsche Welle
The German cabinet has signed off on plans for the military - including massive amounts of equipment - to leave Afghanistan by 2014. But Germany will be paying a stiff toll to move it all through oppressive Uzbekistan.
The German government plans to withdraw its troops from Afghanistan by the end of 2014. That's a real challenge - how is all the German military equipment that has collected in the country over the last 10 years to be brought back to Germany? An estimated 1,700 vehicles and 6,000 shipping containers are due to return to Germany within the next two years.
Bringing them back via Iran is out of the question, and the route through Pakistan is overloaded and insecure. That only leaves the northern route.
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My Comment: This is the last payoff .... and one should not be surprised that everyone in the region wants it.
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