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2015-11-29 Africa North

Egypt discovers iron tunnel network under Gaza border

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Posted by trailing wife 2015-11-29 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top
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#1 The UN is doing a great job is stopping building material getting into the hands of the tunnel builders.

Posted by BernardZ 2015-11-29 03:31|| 2015-11-29 03:31|| Front Page Top

#2 Someone needs to put a slapdown on Qatar.

Posted by Ebbart Glererong5900 2015-11-29 09:12|| 2015-11-29 09:12|| Front Page Top

#3 WTF? Forty centimeters of iron? 400mm? Almost a half meter? How much of the tunnel had that armor? That's twice the thickness of the Panzer VIII Maus's front armor.

That's a lot of iron to bury.

And if the Paleostain's don't like the condition of the ground, they can stop tunneling through it.

Posted by Rob Crawford 2015-11-29 11:08|| 2015-11-29 11:08|| Front Page Top

#4 Tin foil hat time.

Posted by Betty Hitler2611 2015-11-29 12:52|| 2015-11-29 12:52|| Front Page Top

#5 "Madman madman madman. Smoke away."

Posted by Herb Trotsky8742 2015-11-29 13:36|| 2015-11-29 13:36|| Front Page Top

#6 Mightn't it be cost effective for the Egyptians to salvage some of that iron before setting off the explosives?

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2015-11-29 15:08|| 2015-11-29 15:08|| Front Page Top

#7 the thickness quoted is quite clearly -
unbelievable. Handling, moving, etc. are just stupidly difficult

Posted by Frank G 2015-11-29 15:45|| 2015-11-29 15:45|| Front Page Top

#8 Meps, meps. Mass quantities. That would be right at 13 inches. Whoo-eee.

Posted by Slutch Ebbens2155 2015-11-29 16:14|| 2015-11-29 16:14|| Front Page Top

#9 The previous comment was me.

Posted by Deacon Blues 2015-11-29 16:19|| 2015-11-29 16:19|| Front Page Top

#10 Maybe steel w beams. Kinda crazy when one can timber between steel bents. Something wrong with the story

Posted by Alaska Paul 2015-11-29 16:56|| 2015-11-29 16:56|| Front Page Top

#11 Poor Palestine's penchant for boring
Has pierced the Earth's core! Iron is pouring
In upwellings vernal
From regions infernal,
Providing some opportune shoring.

Posted by Zenobia Floger6220 2015-11-29 16:57|| 2015-11-29 16:57|| Front Page Top

#12 Typo? 40mm instead of 40cm?

Posted by AlanC 2015-11-29 18:36|| 2015-11-29 18:36|| Front Page Top

#13 Iron Tunnel Network WMAGNFAB

Posted by Shipman 2015-11-29 18:47|| 2015-11-29 18:47|| Front Page Top

#14 Thinking 4 mm Alan

Posted by Shipman 2015-11-29 18:47|| 2015-11-29 18:47|| Front Page Top

#15 These tunnels would make way cool potato guns!

Posted by 3dc 2015-11-29 20:36|| 2015-11-29 20:36|| Front Page Top

#16 Even 40mm is a lot of iron. By itself, this is expensive. Forming it and hauling it and fitting it and sealing it....
Somebody sold a lot of oil without anybody else noticing.

Posted by Richard Aubrey 2015-11-29 22:28|| 2015-11-29 22:28|| Front Page Top

#17 Gee whiz, the stuff one learns a click or two away from this place. I'd seen the odd iron church in the Caribbean and the 'Pines and whatnot, but had no idea of the origins of the genre. "Tin tabernacles," even. Thanks, Burg.

Posted by Zenobia Floger6220 2015-11-29 23:22|| 2015-11-29 23:22|| Front Page Top

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