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March 3rd, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda The agreement signed by Philip Hammond, the Defense Secretary, would enable the UK to ship out of northern Afghanistan its equipment – including tanks and armored personnel carriers.
The UK government and its NATO allies have been desperately seeking alternative routes following Pakistan’s decision to close the vital supply route from Karachi to Afghanistan. Pakistan closed the border crossing after the US military mistakenly killed 24 Pakistani forces last November.
While diplomats expect Pakistan to reopen the border at some point in the future, Britain has decided that it can no longer rely on Pakistan’s co-operation as it begins the immensely complex operation of withdrawing troops from Afghanistan by the end of 2014, when all NATO combat operations are due to cease.
Hammond now hopes to open a new supply route through Central Asia following the signing of the pact with Kazakhstan’s defence ministry that guarantees Britain air transit rights over the massive Central Asian republic, a country, which is equal in size to the whole of Western Europe.
The Defence Secretary hopes a “reverse transiting agreement” will result in Kazakhstan also providing permission for military equipment such as tanks and armored personnel carriers to be carried by train on a 4,000-mile journey from northern Afghanistan to the Baltic, where they will then be shipped back to Britain.
The Ministry of Defence (MoD) estimates that Britain has a total of 3,000 armored vehicles and 11,000 containers of equipment worth an estimated £4 billion based in Afghanistan that needs to be shipped home as the British government signals the end of its military involvement in the long-running Afghan conflict.
These include Warrior armored personnel carriers, as well as the new generation of protected vehicles such as Foxhound and Coyote, which have been acquired to replace the flawed Snatch Land Rover.
Earlier, it has been claimed that the MoD was planning to abandon billions of pounds worth of military equipment in Afghanistan because it was too expensive to bring it home. The cost of shipping the equipment home is estimated at more than £100 million.
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