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IDF to use mammoth trencher to expose Gaza tunnels [Great Pic to Caption!]
Ha'aretz ^ | June 5, 2005

Posted on 06/08/2005 8:07:43 PM PDT by Alouette

The Israel Defense Forces have found a way to block the tunnels Palestinians dig under the Gaza-Egypt border to smuggle in weapons by using a huge trench-digging machine, according to a military publication.

The 100-ton behemoth would dig deep channels along the border route Israel patrols, exposing the tunnels, the soldiers' weekly "Bamahane" reports in its current edition.

The new trenching machine, made U.S. company Trencor Inc., might provide at least an interim answer to the smuggling problem by neutralizing tunnels now in operation.

(Excerpt) Read more at haaretz.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Government; Israel; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; Political Humor/Cartoons; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: bamahane; gaza; heavyequipment; idf; romeplow; trenches; tunnels; zahal
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1 posted on 06/08/2005 8:07:43 PM PDT by Alouette
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To: 1st-P-In-The-Pod; A Jovial Cad; A_Conservative_in_Cambridge; adam_az; af_vet_rr; agrace; ahayes; ...
FRmail me to be added or removed from this Judaic/pro-Israel ping list.

WARNING: This is a high volume ping list

2 posted on 06/08/2005 8:08:29 PM PDT by Alouette (The only thing learned from history is that nobody ever learns from history.)
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How does it work when Israel withdraws from Gaza?


3 posted on 06/08/2005 8:09:24 PM PDT by Dog Gone
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giant chainsaw!


4 posted on 06/08/2005 8:10:44 PM PDT by NautiNurse ("I'd rather see someone go to work for a Republican campaign than sit on their butt."--Howard Dean)
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To: Dog Gone

They use it on the other side, of course!


5 posted on 06/08/2005 8:10:48 PM PDT by muawiyah (q)
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To: Alouette
Does not brake for pro islam protesters.
6 posted on 06/08/2005 8:11:03 PM PDT by CzarNicky (The problem with bad ideas is that they seemed like good ideas at the time.)
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To: Alouette

Another option might be some of the major equipment used in coal strip mine operations. They could dig a canyon with that stuff.


7 posted on 06/08/2005 8:11:44 PM PDT by muawiyah (q)
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To: Dog Gone

After the Gaza withdrawal, the IDF sells the machine to the local cable company. Got to have that MTV!


8 posted on 06/08/2005 8:13:38 PM PDT by RicocheT
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" Cuts Spineless worms in half in a split second"


9 posted on 06/08/2005 8:13:43 PM PDT by 1FASTGLOCK45 (FreeRepublic: More fun than watching Dem'Rats drown like Turkeys in the rain! ! !)
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Now, THAT is a trencher!

"When a Ditch Witch just isn't enough..."

10 posted on 06/08/2005 8:14:20 PM PDT by okie01 (The Mainstream Media: IGNORANCE ON PARADE)
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Rachel Correy should have stayed around for THIS baby! Whoa! Of course, all the musrats have to do is dig deeper. What Israel should do is have someone fill the trenches with boiling bacon grease. It would leech down into the soil and the diggers would freak when they smelled the bacon.


11 posted on 06/08/2005 8:15:06 PM PDT by Right Wing Assault ("..this administration is planning a 'Right Wing Assault' on values and ideals.." - John Kerry)
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To: Dog Gone
How does it work when Israel withdraws from Gaza?

Connect one end to the Med Sea and fill the moat.

12 posted on 06/08/2005 8:16:29 PM PDT by Optimist (I think I'm beginning to see a pattern here.)
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Take a bite outta crime.

I can dig it.

13 posted on 06/08/2005 8:17:15 PM PDT by PhilDragoo (Hitlery: das Butch von Buchenvald)
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They need to dig to below sea level, then flood the trench, and make it sufficiently broad for the patrol craft operation. Underwater tunneling is more complicated proposition than digging in the dry.


14 posted on 06/08/2005 8:18:16 PM PDT by GSlob
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15 posted on 06/08/2005 8:19:08 PM PDT by Alouette (The only thing learned from history is that nobody ever learns from history.)
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When are we going to use them on OUR southern border? We're always turning up these people and drug smuggling tunnels. Some even have electrical supply!


16 posted on 06/08/2005 8:20:58 PM PDT by newzjunkey (Remind Liberal Cowards Why America Freed Iraq: http://massgraves.info/)
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To: Alouette

So like, where's the pull cord to start this thing?


17 posted on 06/08/2005 8:21:47 PM PDT by alancarp (When does it cease to be "Freedom of the Press" and become outright SEDITION?)
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Someday I expect the Jews to finally wise up and kill all the Palestinians who actively wish all Jews ill. Until that day we will be reading of the latetst innovations in exposing the Arabs murderous impulses
18 posted on 06/08/2005 8:21:56 PM PDT by TalBlack
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Sweet! It's too bad they can't use something like "Big Muskie"

"Big Muskie" could dig a trench 185 ft deep. In her working lifetime, Big Muskie removed over 608,000,000 cubic yards of overburden (twice the earth moved during the construction of the Panama Canal), uncovering 20,000,000 tons of clean coal. She cost a mere $25 million to build in 1969.

19 posted on 06/08/2005 8:22:43 PM PDT by Slump Tester (John Kerry - When even your best still isn't good enough)
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Will this machine avoid damaging any Koran's in the tunnel?
Kind of a Koran chipper-shredder...
20 posted on 06/08/2005 8:24:01 PM PDT by stanleypie
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