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2010-07-23 Israel-Palestine-Jordan

Gaza tunnel smugglers cutting through Egypts wall

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Posted by Steve White 2010-07-23 00:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 Oh come on now, they act as if this was unexpected?
This was in the works while the steel piles were being driven.
All the Bomb making equipment, and the Egyptians expect they don't have an oxy-acetylene rig or two to cut metal?
Stupid Stupid Stupid, nobody in the middle east obeys any laws anyway, but the Palestinians (Who's entire existence there is illegal) will?

Posted by Redneck Jim 2010-07-23 00:21|| 2010-07-23 00:21|| Front Page Top

#2 Wouldn't it be easier to just go to the sparkly new mall?

Posted by tu3031 2010-07-23 00:30|| 2010-07-23 00:30|| Front Page Top

#3 Bethlehem Maan Egyptian forces took control of three smuggling tunnels along the Gaza border, Egyptian security sources said Friday. The seizures were part of a new campaign underway to expose tunnels used by Palestinians to smuggle goods into Gaza, which proliferated exponentially as Israel's four-year siege intensified during 2008-9.

Two tunnels, used to smuggle goods and medical supplies, were found near Rafah's Salah Ad-Din area, and one tunnel, used to bring cars into Gaza, was found near in the jungle area north of Rafah.

Egypt began constructing a steel wall on its border to prevent the tunnels last year, but an Egyptian official said that there are hundreds of holes in the barrier, equal to the number of active tunnels, the Associated Press reported Thursday, prompting one source to call the endeavor a "big failure."

Posted by tu3031 2010-07-23 11:37|| 2010-07-23 11:37|| Front Page Top

#4 Any decent security expert would have told the Egyptians that wall needed sound sensors.

Posted by Bernardz 2010-07-23 12:41|| 2010-07-23 12:41|| Front Page Top

#5 Why not go about placing large seismic charges around suspected areas and echo locate the tunnels which do not collapse from the charge blast?

Posted by swksvolFF 2010-07-23 12:46|| 2010-07-23 12:46|| Front Page Top

#6 What they need is one of those machines that vibrates piles into the ground. Just position it at random everyday and any nearby tunnels would likely collapse due to the vibrations.

Posted by phil_b 2010-07-23 17:32|| 2010-07-23 17:32|| Front Page Top

#7 Vibratory Hammer - fits the Caterpillar Excavator Corrie(C8) model

Posted by Frank G 2010-07-23 18:49|| 2010-07-23 18:49|| Front Page Top

#8 Send naked women down the tunnels.
That should scare away those limp-d*ck arabs better than poison gas or water.

Posted by bigjim-CA 2010-07-23 20:36|| 2010-07-23 20:36|| Front Page Top

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