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| Whoops, they did it again: Blast rocks Egypt's gas pipeline to Israel, Jordan |
| 2012-07-22 |
| [Jerusalem Post] An kaboom on Sunday rocked the Egyptian pipeline built to carry natural gas to Israel and Jordan, the 15th time it has been attacked since the start of the uprising in early 2011 that toppled President Hosni Mubarak ...The former President-for-Life of Egypt, dumped by popular demand in early 2011... The blast occurred in the early hours of Sunday morning at al-Tuwail, east of the coastal Sinai town of al-Arish, at a point before the pipeline splits into separate branches to Israel and Jordan, security officials and witnesses said. Gunmen in a small truck drove up to the pipeline, dug a hole and placed explosive charges under the pipeline that they detonated from a distance, a security official and witnesses said. A large boom echoed across the area and residents up to 30 km away said later they could see flames of burning gas lighting the sky. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #7 Cutting of the oil before the shooting starts. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2012-07-22 17:23 |
| #6 Bedouin boys out having a good time, then? |
| Posted by: Pappy 2012-07-22 15:27 |
| #5 Well, there's Israel. Always a convenient excuse; Egypt might start selling gas to them sometime. And then there's Jordan, whose monarchy doesn't rank highly on the Islamo-facist list. And most importantly---where is a place where you can make a big boom! |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2012-07-22 13:37 |
| #4 why the blast? Well, there's Israel. Always a convenient excuse; Egypt might start selling gas to them sometime. And then there's Jordan, whose monarchy doesn't rank highly on the Islamo-facist list. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2012-07-22 13:17 |
| #3 Just being assholes? "We are brave Jihadi warriors striking a blow against the Zionist Entity. That this act is pointless and stupid does not bother us." Q: Does Arabic even have a word for 'counterproductive'? |
| Posted by: SteveS 2012-07-22 12:09 |
| #2 I thought that Egypt wasn't selling gas to Israel anyway, why the blast? Just being assholes? |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2012-07-22 05:44 |
| #1 Happy Ramadan! |
| Posted by: Rambler in Virginia 2012-07-22 02:05 |