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Wonder how much flour a half ton of TNT and the smugglers fee would buy? Of course they don't actually buy flour.
Posted on 05/10/2006 8:48:39 AM PDT by hoosierboy
navy patrol boat on a routine mission off the Gaza coast spotted three suspicious vessels on the Israel-Egypt border crossing into waters declared off limits by the IDF.
As the patrol boat began to chase the boats in an effort to seize them, the vessels deliberately sailed into waters crowded with Arab fishing boats from Gaza. The commander of the patrol boat then decided not to open fire on the suspect vessels in order to avoid the possibility of hitting a fishing boat.
The vessels subsequently escaped, but not before dumping their cargo into the ocean.
The patrol boat recorded the spot, and the navy returned, this time with a robot capable of diving 32 meters below the surface, in order to determine exactly what was dumped overboard.
The robot discovered sacks of powder. A specimen was taken, revealing explosives. The sacks, eleven in total, were finally recovered Tuesday by navy divers. A gag order prevented the media from covering the story until Tuesday afternoon.
The explosives recovered weighed 550 kilograms (0.6 tons), enough to cause widespread damage and loss of life, had the material reached the hands of Arab terrorists in Gaza.
There were no official reports as to whether there were more explosives on the three boats which escaped. The navy believes the explosives were smuggled from Egypt.
Col. Yoram Lax, commander of naval forces in Ashdod, said that since the IDF withdrawal from Gaza in September 2005, the navy has successfully thwarted a number of attempts to smuggle weapons and explosives from Egypt into Gaza via the sea.
If the PA government is bankrupt, how can they afford to buy all these explosives?
and they like to blow themselves up?
I say ram the stuff down their throats and I will light the fuses!!!
These creatures are modern vampires.....they live for the deaths of others........
I'm sure they are funded by other terrorist sponsoring countries, such as Syria and Iran.
I'm sure Jimmy Carter will have a good explanation.
Don't you worry about the Palis. They're back on the US taxpayer teat.
I doubt they bought it. It was probably a donation. Charity is one of the Five Pillars of Islam, dontcha know...kinda brings a tear to yer eye...
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Wonder how much flour a half ton of TNT and the smugglers fee would buy? Of course they don't actually buy flour.
If the Palestinians get on the wrong side of these groups, their futures will be bleak indeed.
Probably going to use for opening up the Rachel Corrie FFO
Canal. FFO = For Flatboats Only.
Carrying supplies to be used for preparing more messages of peace!
Obviusly there must be some mistake... surely this was for strip mining or some other contructive use...
Should have planted a detonator and a cell phone in the shipment. When they say hello. We say good-bye.
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