U.S. Gets Pushed For More Money

WASHINGTON – Uzbekistan has become more and more unpredictable in its response to requests to let the United States use its railway into Afghanistan as part of the Northern Delivery Network to deliver vital supplies to U.S. troops, according to a report from Joseph Farah’s G2 Bulletin.

It’s apparently because the nation is wanting more money for the permissions, and it is feeling pressure from the Russians. But the result is that more expensive and increasingly difficult approaches are being considered.

The need to look to the NDN first came about after Pakistan retaliated against recent U.S. actions by cutting off the flow of supplies through the Khyber Pass, through which some 75 percent of these supplies has been flowing. Due to the recent accidental killing of some 24 Pakistani troops along the Afghan-Pakistan border, the Pakistani government cut off U.S. use of the Khyber Pass altogether, forcing the U.S. and coalition forces to face the obstacles that the NDN posed.

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