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Africa North
Egypt: Two tunnels discovered near Gaza-Strip border
2007-10-17

Egyptian security forces seized drugs, bombs, and weapons when they uncovered two tunnels linking the Egyptian border town of Rafah with the Palestinian city of the same name, pan-Arab daily al-Quds al-Arabi reported.

One of the tunnels measured almost one kilometre long, and three Palestinians were found and arrested inside one of the passages, al-Quds al-Arabi said.

The munitions found were allegedly destined to be used in attacks inside the Sinai peninsula. In the past weeks, Israeli authorities have complained to Egypt about not doing enough to stop the trafficking of weapons to the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip.

According to Egyptian authorities, since the Islamist Hamas movement took over the Gaza Strip in June 2007, trafficking has decreased considerably.
??? Or do they mean from pleasant gaza to egypt?
Posted by:anonymous5089

#6  Ummm, mising is a dimension, how wide, how tall, etc, then we will know if this is a hand operation, or if they use some kind of tunneling machine.
Posted by: Redneck Jim   2007-10-17 20:19  

#5  I'd guess telephoto, 3dc. Look how shallow field depth is.

The Palestinians don't appear to be using teaspoons and fingernails as digging tools.
Posted by: trailing wife   2007-10-17 14:15  

#4  During WWII it took dozens of POWs forever to dig a tunnel just a few hundred yards long. The Paleos are using three guys to dig a kilometer-long tunnel? Doesn't add up.

Either they have hundreds of Mahmouds spreading soil through the gardens of Gaza, or they have some serious earthmoving equipment that no one can seem to find.
Posted by: Steve White   2007-10-17 14:03  

#3  BTW... nice prairie dog photo. (telephoto? Its hard to get close to those critters.)
Posted by: 3dc   2007-10-17 13:05  

#2  I keep thinking of the demise of "No Name City" when I see these tunnel stories.
Posted by: 3dc   2007-10-17 13:04  

#1  Hamas had promised Egypt to end all support for anti Egyptian terror ops.

The discovery of pre positioned munitions ought to produce some anti Hamas seething within the Egyptian security forces.
Posted by: mhw   2007-10-17 12:11  

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