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2004-05-25 Israel-Palestine

Rafah arms smuggler: Profit overcomes fear

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Posted by Phil B 2004-05-25 4:40:10 AM|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 What did Lucky say?

"They never happy unless they're burrowing"?

Posted by Shipman 2004-05-25 7:34:36 AM|| 2004-05-25 7:34:36 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 So, does a short handled hoe charge less for... Oh, my bad....

Posted by Chuck Simmins 2004-05-25 8:52:04 AM|| [http://blog.simmins.org] 2004-05-25 8:52:04 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 Digging and smuggling are family businesses. The tunnel owners employ their sons and young relatives to dig, says the merchant, so the direct costs are not very high.

Trans:
..the womenfolk dig whilst the men stand around and chat/smoke.

Posted by The Screaming Nun 2004-05-25 8:57:24 AM|| 2004-05-25 8:57:24 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 The merchant, a PA security official, and a member of the Popular Resistance Committee, all told Haaretz that the tunnels are too narrow to smuggle large amounts of weapons or large weapons through the tunnels.

The quantities of 'plastic' used in the past three years must account for something. Each one of those shaped charges against tanks was over 200lbs. Then again how are they refilling all those stocks of RPGs?
Apparently what really upset the apple cart was that they are trying to get Strella anti-Aircraft missiles. How big are those? Much, much smaller than most teenagers in Gaza.

Posted by Anonymous4997 2004-05-25 11:42:24 AM|| 2004-05-25 11:42:24 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 And a BM-24 Katyusha is 240 mm in diameter. That's 24 cm, easily able to fit thru a 80 cm tunnel (assuming no tight curves). As growler said on another thread today, I'm tired of Arab lies.

Posted by 11A5S 2004-05-25 12:55:35 PM|| 2004-05-25 12:55:35 PM|| Front Page Top

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