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2008-11-03 Israel-Palestine-Jordan

Four killed, three missing in Egypt-Gaza tunnel collapse

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Posted by Fred 2008-11-03 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top
File under: Hamas

#1 Someone tell them to try using a backhoe next time. And I wonder if they were properly permitted.

Posted by gorb 2008-11-03 01:05|| 2008-11-03 01:05|| Front Page Top

#2 I'll bet they didn't call Miss Utility, either.

Posted by Fred 2008-11-03 07:43|| 2008-11-03 07:43|| Front Page Top

#3 Looks like stormy weather. Perhaps Allah is not pleased...

Gaza Maan More than ten tunnels running between Gaza and Egypt collapsed on Saturday night after heavy rains inundated the area for several days over the past week.

Sources within Gaza say that a handful of other tunnels have sustained minor damage. Tunnel owners have begun to repair the tunnels, and expect to salvage what have become a lifeline for the besieged area.

Posted by tu3031 2008-11-03 09:16|| 2008-11-03 09:16|| Front Page Top

#4 Looks like stormy weather.

Gaia is beginning to take notice.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2008-11-03 09:46|| 2008-11-03 09:46|| Front Page Top

#5 Late last month, following a series of tunnel deaths, Hamas summoned owners to discuss workers' compensation. Forty-five tunnel workers have been killed this year, both in accidents and during Egyptian anti-smuggling operations.

Owners were asked to sign a promise to pay the Islamic diyeh, or blood money, to the family of each worker killed, said an Interior Ministry official, speaking on condition of anonymity. The compensation for accidental death amounts to about 20,000 Jordanian dinars (S$41,000).

First the bad news. Sorry about Mahmoud. The good news? You're rich!

Posted by tu3031 2008-11-03 09:48|| 2008-11-03 09:48|| Front Page Top

#6 The compensation for accidental death amounts to about 20,000 Jordanian dinars (S$41,000).

That's more than suicide boomers used to get (before the "Apartheid wall")

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2008-11-03 09:59|| 2008-11-03 09:59|| Front Page Top

#7 Mutual of Gaza is going to increase premiums ...

Posted by Steve White 2008-11-03 10:08|| 2008-11-03 10:08|| Front Page Top

#8 Looks like a bad day all around for the GTA...

EL-ARISH, Egypt (AFP)--Egyptian security forces have uncovered 13 tunnels used by smugglers to slip contraband into the Gaza Strip, a security official said Monday.

Three of the tunnels collapsed after heavy rain along Egypt's border with the Palestinian territory, the official said, adding that the remaining tunnels would also be destroyed.

Posted by tu3031 2008-11-03 10:15|| 2008-11-03 10:15|| Front Page Top

#9 the other good news? The burial's free

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2008-11-03 11:21|| 2008-11-03 11:21|| Front Page Top

#10 Another on bites the dust. Literally.

Posted by Woozle Choter9151 2008-11-03 13:21|| 2008-11-03 13:21|| Front Page Top

#11 i don't think they are really missing, just ain't been found. perhaps they should "leave no stone unturned" in their search, so to speak....

Posted by USN, Ret. 2008-11-03 13:45|| 2008-11-03 13:45|| Front Page Top

#12 Show goat breeding seems like a safer and more profitable trade.

Posted by ed 2008-11-03 19:55|| 2008-11-03 19:55|| Front Page Top

#13 "Four killed, three missing"

I sure don't miss them.

Wonder where I could send them a "Get Dead" card?

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