UPDATEPakistan stops NATO supplies after raid kills up to 28

[nadinbrzezinski]

(Reuters) - NATO helicopters and fighter jets attacked two military outposts in northwest Pakistan on Saturday, killing as many as 28 troops and plunging U.S.-Pakistan relations, already deeply frayed, further into crisis.

Pakistan retaliated by shutting down vital NATO supply routes into Afghanistan, used for sending in just under a third of the alliance's supplies.

The attack is the worst single incident of its kind since Pakistan uneasily allied itself with Washington in the days immediately following the September 11, 2001 attacks on U.S. targets.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/11/26/us-pakistan-nato-idUSTRE7AP03S20111126

[FarCenter]

1. Government stops NATO supplies

PESHAWAR: The political administration of Khyber Agency has halted supplies to NATO forces in Afghanistan after the federation’s order, Geo News reported Saturday.

According to the agency’s political administration, the government ordered to stop supplies to NATO after a Pakistani check post was attacked early Saturday morning, killing at least 20 security men including two officers.

Hundreds of containers and oil tankers are now standing at a check post in Tehsil Jamrood where the supplies were stopped after the orders.

http://www.thenews.com.pk/NewsDetail.aspx?ID=27330&title=Government-stops-NATO-supplies

[kenny blankenship]

2. Damn you Bush, you stupid motherfucker!

(Page One news at teh google, but it barely gets a mention here)

[nadinbrzezinski]

5. Well for the most part things like this

are alien, we are a reluctant empire

[neverforget]

3. Shutting down a supply line is going to hurt.

[nadinbrzezinski]

4. Yup

On the bright side IT COULD bring the end of the war quite fast. We really do not have alternate routes and air supply is just not possible.

So you can bet on a few calls and feather smoothing