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2007-03-25 Africa North

Three tonnes of explosives found in Egypt

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Posted by Fred 2007-03-25 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 a warehouse hidden under agricultural land

What? You can't say "Buried"? Or "Cached"?

Posted by Redneck Jim 2007-03-25 12:02|| 2007-03-25 12:02|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2007-03-25 14:05|| Front Page Top

#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">JFM 2007-03-25 15:11|| 2007-03-25 15:11|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2007-03-25 15:48|| Front Page Top

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