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Africa: North |
Egyptian Resort Town Builds Fence to Prevent Attacks |
2005-10-18 |
Egypt has started building a wire fence around Sharm El-Sheikhâs tourist spots in a bid to prevent attackers from crossing into the Red Sea resort that was hit by deadly bombings in July, a security official said yesterday. âThe fence aims to block cars from entering tourist areas except from four designated points and thus prevent possible terror attacks,â the official said on condition of anonymity. The fence would span 20 kilometers, stand one-and-a-half meters high, and be patrolled by security forces, the official said. He said work started on Saturday but did not say when it would end. Once the fence is complete, access to the city will be restricted to police-monitored entry points, equipped with state-of-the-art explosive detection equipment, he said. The opposition newspaper Al-Wafd put the fence price tag at 20 million Egyptian pounds ($3.5 million) but did not say how it obtained the figure. âHow is Egypt different from the government of (Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon) that built a separation wall to stop the Palestinian resistance?â it wrote on its front page. âThis wall seeks to keep Sinai Bedouins out of Sharm El-Sheikh but it will only separate the state from its citizens ... it will not prevent terrorism, it will increase it,â it said. |
Posted by:Fred |
#6 If you are a short *ahem* militant, Frank, you gotta learn to dig to survive internment. |
Posted by: Alaska Paul 2005-10-18 11:52 |
#5 1-1/2 meters high? preventing all Islamo-midget extremists from scaling |
Posted by: Frank G 2005-10-18 11:44 |
#4 A simpler approach would be to gather up all the radical muslims, put them someplace and build the fence around them. I like it - Escape from Cairo. Who's gonna play Snake Plissken? |
Posted by: Raj 2005-10-18 09:34 |
#3 "Bring them a shrubbery!" * *Monty Python & the Holy Grail |
Posted by: trailing wife 2005-10-18 05:13 |
#2 But ... but ... but, aren't the acursed Jews building the most vile of fences? What shall we call this Egyptian construct, a "privit hedge?" |
Posted by: Zenster 2005-10-18 01:52 |
#1 Building fences to keep out the terrorists is akin to building city walls to keep out the barbarians, a good idea. A simpler approach would be to gather up all the radical muslims, put them someplace and build the fence around them. Even the Egyptians realize that these perverts are homicidal thugs that have no place in civilized society. The State can either kill them or exclude them; for the time being it is fencing them out. |
Posted by: RWV 2005-10-18 01:02 |