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Africa North
Egyptian flooding drowns Gaza's tunnel business
2015-11-05
A campaign being conducted by the Egyptian army seeks to flood every tunnel crossing into the country from Gaza, much to the seething ire of Palestinians.

Mahmoud Bakeer speaks with despair about the night of the flash flood, when he screamed at his wife and five children to flee their home on Gaza's border with Egypt as the water rushed in.
That's what you get when you allow a tunnel to be built underneath your home.
They made it to safety during the flooding last week, but a network of Palestinian tunnels running under the frontier town of Rafah is now water-logged, destroyed by Cairo to sever what it says is a weapons smuggling route out of Gaza for Islamist insurgents in Egypt's Sinai desert.
Posted by:Steve White

#9  Egypt'scampaign, he said, could weaken the foundations of homes already on shaky ground due to tunnel-building and make land unfit for agriculture in areas near the frontier.

You choose to build tunnels you accept the consequences. Dumb-a*s.
Posted by: Sven the pelter   2015-11-05 11:44  

#8  Tamer al-Sleibi, water department director in the Palestinian Environment Quality Authority in Gaza, who is concerned about long-term environmental damage.

Tamer uses several private email accounts to conduct gubbamint business offline, including GinaMcCarthy@aol.com, LisaJackson@aol.com....
Posted by: Frank G   2015-11-05 09:03  

#7  "It's not a terror tunnel. It's a man-cave. No? NO! How about: I wanted a very long basement? No?"
Posted by: Frank G   2015-11-05 08:57  

#6  It just flies right over their head.

My dear Mr. Fool, it doesn't need to fly to go over their heads, it's just rolling on the ground over their heads.

Sounds like Egypt was reading the 'burg.
Posted by: AlanC   2015-11-05 07:58  

#5  Can't find an image from the collapsing tunnel scene from Paint Your Wagon. Anyone?
Posted by: Shipman   2015-11-05 07:37  

#4  Seawater, sewage, cooling tower waste water...
Posted by: Skidmark   2015-11-05 05:51  

#3  Karma, or as I like to say, "It is Allah's will".
Posted by: Sven the pelter   2015-11-05 00:53  

#2  My... My... My...

Doesn't that just make you all teary-eyed and all. (1)

They still don't get all that Cause->Effect thingie. It just flies right over their head.

(1) with either Joy or Hysterical Laughter.
Posted by: CrazyFool   2015-11-05 00:47  

#1  Someone had to do it.
Posted by: newc   2015-11-05 00:26  

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