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| Three tonnes of explosives found in Egypt |
| 2007-03-25 |
| Egyptian authorities found three tonnes of explosives in the northern part of the Sinai Peninsula, a security source said on Saturday. "The TNT explosives were found in a warehouse hidden under agricultural land in the Al-Towayel area," the source said, adding that they were hunting those involved in the cache. The explosives could belong to disgruntled local Bedouin tribes who are suspected of being behind a number of terrorist attacks against Red Sea tourist resorts in southern Sinai over the last three years. On February 23, Egyptian security forces discovered a tonne of explosives near the border with Israel, while on February 4, arms caches containing rockets and grenades were discovered. Israel has long complained that Egypt is not doing enough to stem the flow of weapons and explosives into the Palestinian territories, though there have been announcements nearly every month of caches being discovered. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #4 Israel has long complained that Egypt is not doing enough to stem the flow of weapons and explosives into the Palestinian territories, though there have been announcements nearly every month of caches being discovered. Discovering caches is one thing. Preventing the caches from being created (or simply reburying them) is another. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2007-03-25 15:48 |
| #3 Three tonnes of water is three cubic meters or four cubic yards. Explosives are heavier but they are not a solid block and thre is intersticial space full of air thus two or theree cubic meters is not abad approximation. |
| Posted by: JFM 2007-03-25 15:11 |
| #2 What kind of volume is three tonnes? Are we talking the equivalent of a shallow grave (or several), a two-car garage, or a suburban grocery store? In other words, is this like those air conditioned and fully lit tunnels the Gazans are fond of digging under their borders? |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2007-03-25 14:05 |
| #1 a warehouse hidden under agricultural land What? You can't say "Buried"? Or "Cached"? |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2007-03-25 12:02 |