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2009-11-12 Israel-Palestine-Jordan

Egyptian patrol ambushed by smugglers near Gaza

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Posted by Fred 2009-11-12 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top
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#1 I'm impressed. Never would have guessed the tunnels were so good they could move bulk goods like hundreds of tons of cement through them. That has to be some expensive cement by the time it's delivered. What kind of construction can support that investment?

Posted by Glenmore 2009-11-12 09:23|| 2009-11-12 09:23|| Front Page Top

#2 And why would anybody need to smuggle cement? I somehow doubt that it's on the "banned" list.

Posted by mojo 2009-11-12 11:03|| 2009-11-12 11:03|| Front Page Top

#3 Might not want the extent of their building activities to be known.

Posted by Sluque the Rasher of Bacon4421 2009-11-12 12:25|| 2009-11-12 12:25|| Front Page Top

#4 To build more, deeper, bigger tunnels, of course with truck sized elevators at each end.

Think of it as an U with hidden entrances at each end.

Posted by Redneck Jim 2009-11-12 13:54|| 2009-11-12 13:54|| Front Page Top

#5 How else are they going to build their four-lane-highway tunnel?

But seriously, the Egyptians are going to lose control of the Sinai at this rate. You can't let this sort of systemic organized, regimented corruption go on for long without it generating its own quasi-governmental organization to rival the nominal authorities.

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