Photo: US cargo planes sit on the runway at the airbase 30 km outside Bishkek in Manas in February 2009. Russia has allowed a first shipment of US equipment bound for Afghanistan to cross its territory in support of Western operations there, Interfax news agency said Tuesday. (AFP/Vyacheslav Oseledko)From Yahoo News/AP:
MOSCOW (AFP) – Russia has allowed a first shipment of US equipment bound for Afghanistan to cross its territory in support of Western operations there, Interfax news agency said Tuesday.
The report cited unnamed diplomatic sources saying that the shipment, containing non-lethal supplies for US troops, had reached Russia's border with Kazakhstan.
"The transit of US non-military cargoes is being carried out within the framework of the agreement reached last year between Russia and NATO on the delivery of non-military cargoes for the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan," the sources were quoted as saying.
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My Comment: I have a funny feeling that the route that these supplies must go through is long, convoluted, and time consuming.