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| Israel-Palestine-Jordan |
| Egypt puts concrete wall on Gaza border |
| 2008-03-06 |
| Now that they've had their taste of Pali Sweetness and Light... El-ARISH, Egypt - Egypt is building a 10-foot-high concrete wall along its border with Gaza to prevent any new breaches after Palestinian militants blasted through the barrier in January to escape a blockade of their territory, an official said. The new wall replaces a mixed barbed-wire, iron and concrete barrier which was breached in several places when militants blew it open with explosives, added the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not allowed to talk to the media. Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians flooded across the open border unchecked for 12 days before Egypt managed to reseal it. They snapped up food, fuel and other goods made scarce in Gaza by an Israeli closure, imposed after Hamas violently seized control of the strip in June. |
| Posted by:tu3031 |
| #8 You mean they didn't hire a team of consultants to investigate the feasibility of developing a plan to build a virtual wall? DMFD, nobody's that stupid! Right? |
| Posted by: gorb 2008-03-06 23:47 |
| #7 You mean they didn't hire a team of consultants to investigate the feasibility of developing a plan to build a virtual wall? |
| Posted by: DMFD 2008-03-06 20:19 |
| #6 Perhaps we should hire some Egyptians to act as consultants for DHS. |
| Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2008-03-06 19:52 |
| #5 They used both. The bulldozers were theater, I suspect - made for TV. Can we breach it? YES WE CAN!! |
| Posted by: lotp 2008-03-06 19:34 |
| #4 I thought they said bulldozers blew though that barrier. Can't a bulldozer blast through a concrete wall? Unless it's also 10 ft thick, which would give you enough time to get an attack helicopter in position. |
| Posted by: Free Radical 2008-03-06 19:32 |
| #3 Eqypt will be described as an apartheid state any minute now... |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2008-03-06 18:38 |
| #2 why, that's racist! er Xeno...er.. nevermind |
| Posted by: Frank G 2008-03-06 18:23 |
| #1 Explosives can blow up a concrete wall as well any other kind. Just sayin', is all. |
| Posted by: Rambler in California 2008-03-06 17:44 |