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2007-12-23 Israel-Palestine-Jordan
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Hamas Charges $3,000 a Day for Each Smuggling-Tunnel
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Hamas has taken over the estimated 150 smuggling-tunnels from Egypt into Gaza, and charges the owners $3,000 each per day.
Five tunnels whose owners didn't agree to pay the fee were blown up. The other digger/owners quickly agreed to pay the requested fee, enabling Hamas to attain a monopoly on the tunnels.
They've thrown out Fatah for being corrupt.
Correspondent Haggai Huberman reports that while the 150 tunnels bring in a total of some $150 million annually, the value of men, weapons and other merchandise smuggled in each year total more than three times that amount - close to a half-billion dollars. The tunnels are run in a systematic manner, with compensation being paid to the family of a tunnel-digger who dies during the work, and with judges who mediate in various disputes that arise.
Who says that Arabs are incapable of industry? 
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Posted by g(r)omgoru 2007-12-23 06:47||
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Posted by Swamp Blondie 2007-12-23 11:34||
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