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Egypt to expand Gaza buffer zone to up to 2 kilometers | ||||
2015-01-07 | ||||
[IsraelTimes] Hundreds of families in Rafah to be evicted as Cairo ramps up crackdown on arms smuggling to Islamists in the Sinai Egypt has in recent days begun the second stage of creating a buffer zone between the Sinai Peninsula and the Gazoo Strip. The current zone is being expanded from 500 meters to a kilometer, which means the destruction of some 1,200 homes in Egyptian Rafah. However, it was a brave man who first ate an oyster... The Times of Israel has learned, there will be additional stages, which will ultimately expand the buffer zone to between 1,500 and 2,000 meters.
These buffer zones are meant to help the Egyptian military in its fight against the fundamentalist Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis ... Supporters of Jerusalem, the current pen name of al-Qaeda in the Sinai Peninsula... group, which has recently joined the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... , at least symbolically. The army?s operation in the Sinai has been continuous in recent months, with 16-17 Egyptian battalions operating in the peninsula. The forces include commando, armored, and infantry units.
Egyptian intelligence has specific information on assistance that Sinai snuffies have been receiving from the Gazoo Strip. Many activists trained in Gazoo, and received arms there that they have been using against Egyptian forces. That is the source of the urgency around creating the buffer zone: the goal is to cut the jihadis off from their Gazoo supply route. On Monday Egyptian media reported on a jihadist cell that enjoyed considerable help from Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason,, and tried to infiltrate Sinai through tunnels. Most of the tunnels aren?t open, but occasionally smugglers on both sides of the border manage to build a new one. The Egyptian army recently uncovered a 1,700-meter passage.
Egyptian intelligence also recently identified another smuggling route other than the tunnels ? the sea. Though there is a fence stretching out to sea along the Sinai-Egypt border, smugglers in Zodiac boats have been bypassing it to reach the beaches on both sides. Most of these boats are carrying components used to build rocket launchers, and kabooms. The rockets themselves are also being assembled by the Sinai jihadis. Construction of the initial 500-meter (550-yard) buffer zone along 10 kilometers (six miles) of the border comes after an October 24 suicide kaboom that killed 30 Egyptian soldiers. After that incident, Egypt declared a three-month emergency in parts of the northern Sinai. The Rafah crossing is Gazoo?s only gateway to the outside world not controlled by Israel. | ||||
Posted by:trailing wife |
#4 Dig Dug video game was prolly a big hit over there |
Posted by: Frank G 2015-01-07 21:31 |
#3 They built the pyramids, I like this direction. |
Posted by: Shipman 2015-01-07 18:10 |
#2 Imagine if Israel was doing it The answer is simple - do a "reverse Moses". |
Posted by: Pappy 2015-01-07 10:49 |
#1 Imagine if Israel was doing it. |
Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2015-01-07 10:23 |