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Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Gaza/Egypt border looks like final climatic scenes from "Paint Your Wagon"
2008-05-06
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — Palestinian officials said Monday two Gaza men were killed when a cross-border smuggling tunnel collapsed on them.
This brings the story to its climax when, during a bull and bear fight, the streets collapse into the tunnels dug by Ben and the others and the town is destroyed.
The Gaza Health Ministry says five other people were wounded in Monday's collapse. One body was found soon after the collapse and the other several hours later. Security officials said the tunnel was under construction at the time.

Such collapses are common along the Gaza Strip's border with Egypt. Smuggling tunnels in the area have become an important route for goods and a lucrative business. Palestinian smugglers use the tunnels to move weapons and contraband into Gaza.

Israel and Egypt are blockading the territory in an attempt to weaken the Hamas government and end ongoing rocket fire at Israeli towns.
Posted by:GolfBravoUSMC

#8  Second thought, dif a small trench about 15 feet deep, doesn't need to be wide, fill it with sand and plant sensors in the sand, any settling sets off an alarm.
Let them tunnel (Anyone else remember the final scenes of Cecil B. De Mille's classic as the priest smashes the glasses, the sand runs out, and the pyramid settles around the priests and evil ruler, sealing them away for eternity?)
(Evil Pharoh)"How do we get out?",(Priest)We Don't,I brouht poison, didn't you?
Posted by: Redneck Jim   2008-05-06 20:13  

#7  Before you can fill a tunnel with gas, you have to find it, the rock shattering idea is better.
Posted by: Redneck Jim   2008-05-06 19:55  

#6  Like propane?
Posted by: Nimble Spemble   2008-05-06 17:37  

#5  "Hello, there, Imam, Welcome to Hell!!!"

/channeling Lee Marvin in the tunnels of No-Name City
Posted by: Alaska Paul in Thorne Bay, AK   2008-05-06 17:01  

#4  Just as with Inshallah Aircraft Maintenance, I have faith in the competence of the Gaza Tunnel Authority.
We will hear from them again. Probably soon...
Posted by: tu3031   2008-05-06 16:07  

#3  Some gases are heavier than air....

Just saying...
Posted by: CrazyFool   2008-05-06 16:04  

#2  I still think the tunnels (both known and unknown) are really subterranean sewage reserviors waiting to be flooded.
Posted by: USN, Ret.   2008-05-06 14:29  

#1  I think an explosive device might be designed that would be simple to use and lightweight. A tripod mounted vertical screw that would rapidly drill four of five feet straight down. Then an explosive rod would be put into the screw, designed to create a rock fracturing explosion in a cone pattern straight down.

The purpose would be to both collapse the roof and maybe walls of any tunnel in the vicinity, or at least to so thoroughly shatter the rock that any efforts to tunnel through the area will be much more difficult.
Posted by: Anonymoose   2008-05-06 12:30  

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