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| Middle East |
| Egyptian police clash with Palestinian arms smugglers |
| 2002-07-08 |
| Egyptian border police clashed Sunday with four Palestinian arms smugglers and seized a shipment of weapons near the border with the Gaza Strip. Two of the smugglers fled after the firefight in and around the demolished houses of a former refugee camp. Police discovered 84 automatic rifles, 162 cartridges, 42,000 rounds of ammunition, and two rocket-propelled grenades in the area known as Canada Camp. In September 2001, Egypt demolished dozens of homes in the area, on suspicion they were linked to tunnels allegedly used for smuggling weapons to the Palestinian self-rule Gaza Strip. Are the Egyptians getting tired of this nonsense, too? "I have a dream..." |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |