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Article: With attacks on Afghan supply lines in Pakistan, US turns to Uzbekistan.(WORLD)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
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- February 4, 2009
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Byline: C. Collins Contributor to The Christian Science Monitor
Tashkent, Uzbekistan -- Desperate for a new military supply route into Afghanistan, the US is quietly rebuilding ties with leaders of this Central Asian nation, despite its grim human rights record.
The need for a more reliable land link was underscored Tuesday after Taliban militants cut the existing major coalition supply route by blowing up a bridge in northwest Pakistan's Khyber Pass region.
Coalition forces are not in danger of running out of supplies, a NATO spokesman in Afghanistan said. But with 80 percent of all supplies flowing through this largely lawless region of ...