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2007-04-09 Africa North

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Posted by Steve White 2007-04-09 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Wouldn't want anyone cutting into their take, eh?

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-04-09 03:12|| 2007-04-09 03:12|| Front Page Top

#2 Tunnel rats have been busy, haven't they. Must be lots of gardens in Rafah with new soil deposited every day.

Where are they putting all that dirt? If it is identifiable it would point at who is doing the digging.

Posted by gorb 2007-04-09 03:45|| 2007-04-09 03:45|| Front Page Top

#3 Fill them with Nitrogen and see how far they get. Deniable, too!

Posted by gorb 2007-04-09 03:46|| 2007-04-09 03:46|| Front Page Top

#4 Thermobarbic explosives: Google it!

Posted by Excalibur 2007-04-09 09:11|| 2007-04-09 09:11|| Front Page Top

#5 I'm surprised Hamas hasn't set up toll booths...

Posted by tu3031 2007-04-09 11:39|| 2007-04-09 11:39|| Front Page Top

#6 Fill them with Nitrogen and see how far they get.

Mix in a little CO2 with that nitrogen and you get a very common mine gas called "black damp." Black damp is the reason coal miners used to take canaries with them. It can kill you.

Posted by Mike 2007-04-09 12:14|| 2007-04-09 12:14|| Front Page Top

#7 Fill them with Nitrogen and see how far they get.

I'd rather fill them with very wet cement - at about 4000PSI. See where it fountains out in Gaza. Anyone caught IN the tunnel wouldn't stand a chance, and will serve as a reminder for others.

Posted by Old Patriot">Old Patriot 2007-04-09 13:17|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]">[http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/] 2007-04-09 13:17|| Front Page Top

#8 That would be a waste of cement. My vote is for a cheap and easy backfill using natural gas. Once pumping conductance indicates a slight back pressure (i.e., tunnel filled), drop in an ignitor.

Have reconnaisance posted to observe which building in Gaza explodes and go from there. When entire city blocks of familes or group dwellings get charbroiled, they'll begin to reconsider the wisdom of allowing tunnel portals in their neighborhood. Charred skeletons left inside the tunnel would serve as grim reminders to anyone entering them.

What I do not understand is why the IDF doesn't used ground penetrating sidescan radar to detect these conduits. It's a no brainer.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-04-09 15:21|| 2007-04-09 15:21|| Front Page Top

#9 Check musta bounced.

Posted by Snoluns Ebboluth3749 2007-04-09 15:45|| 2007-04-09 15:45|| Front Page Top

#10 Covert to a much needed use: subterranean sewage storage and distibution networks.
no need to verify occupancy status.....

Posted by USN, Ret. 2007-04-09 15:59|| 2007-04-09 15:59|| Front Page Top

#11 Yes, sewage problem, meet tunnel solution.
It will give new meaning to scum of the earth.

Posted by wxjames 2007-04-09 21:33|| 2007-04-09 21:33|| Front Page Top

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