As Cernig noted last night, the Khyber Pass route is temporarily closed again as Taliban affiliated militants blew a bridge just fifteen miles from Peshawar. This is at least the fifth time in the past couple of months that the major supply route has been shut down, and it will not be the last time. The Taliban is able to get away with attacking a critical supply line because they have local legitimacy and relevancy with the population and the protectors were either bought off or functioning with minimal legitimacy and minimal local intelligence and trust.
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