Blue is new route; Red being abandoned.....

[rodeodance]

Oct. 7, 2007
Blue is new route; Red being abandoned.....




There are about 2,000 trucks per day hauling supplies on the red road, including some 3.3 million gallons of fuel per day. It is quite optimistic to believe that a 300 miles long road with many big bridges and lots of heavy traffic could be kept open by 'armed surveillance aircrafts'. So this didn't sound right to me.

Now we learn that the military built and uses an alternative. It only didn't talk about it..........

While the route through Anbar was closed during the U.S. fights with the Sunni resistance, now huge U.S. convois use it day and night without much trouble.

The 'Anbar awakening' created an alternative to MSR Tampa. The tenth of millions of dollars the U.S. payed to those pesky Sunni sheiks are a good investment. They bought a new secure supply line. These Sunni sheiks will also not complain very much when some day bombs might fall on Shia Iran ...
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(Note to those nuts who will damn McClatchy for 'again revealing military secrets'. Folks in the Middle East know perfectly well how to count the trucks passing their windows. They don't need 'western' news services to evaluate its meaning.)