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Three dead, Six missing in Gaza tunnel collapse
AFP ^ | 8/11/08

Posted on 08/11/2008 5:52:08 PM PDT by abu afak

GAZA CITY (AFP) - The bodies of 3 Palestinians have been recovered from a smuggling tunnel between Egypt and the Gaza Strip which collapsed at the weekend, while 6 people are missing, medics said Monday.

The tunnel near the Rafah border crossing caved in on Saturday, burying the 9 Palestinians, the medics said.

Several Palestinians have died in recent months in the tunnels, which are used to smuggle arms, fuel, and other supplies into the Gaza Strip, which has been under a crippling Israeli blockade for nearly a year.

Israel, which sealed Gaza off from all but vital humanitarian aid after the Islamist Hamas movement seized power in June 2007, has accused Egypt of not doing enough to shut down the extensive tunnel network, charges Cairo denies.

Egyptian security forces last week began destroying or blocking 20 tunnels where they seized large amounts of fuel, food and cigarettes, an Egyptian security official said Thursday.....

(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Israel; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: deathtoll; gaza; hamas; islam; israel; mohammedanism; tunnel; wot

1 posted on 08/11/2008 5:52:10 PM PDT by abu afak
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To: abu afak

for later


2 posted on 08/11/2008 5:52:39 PM PDT by happinesswithoutpeace (You are receiving this broadcast as a dream)
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To: abu afak

Oopsy daisey.


3 posted on 08/11/2008 5:54:01 PM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson (For events that occurred in 1938, real time is 1938, not 2008.)
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To: abu afak

Milk prices going higher!!!


4 posted on 08/11/2008 5:55:03 PM PDT by steveyp
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To: Morgana; Cindy; SJackson

Perhaps Smuggling Fuel and Cigarrettes at the same time maybe isn’t that wise.

Egyptians really hate ‘Palestinians’ anyway.


6 posted on 08/11/2008 6:03:18 PM PDT by abu afak (Mellita, domi adsum)
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To: abu afak
Baby Milk Syndrome...


7 posted on 08/11/2008 6:05:32 PM PDT by Coffee200am ("We should all be living in mud huts and riding bicycles to avoid killing the polar bears...%99"/s)
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To: abu afak

“Egyptians really hate ‘Palestinians’ anyway.”

AS I recall, the ‘Palestinians’ hate the Palestinians. Half of them hate the other, and even in those halves, they seem to love to kill each other.

Does anyone else remember that the original “Palestinian Homeland” was Jordon, and Jordon kicked out (with massive loss of life) the Arafat crowd? That crowd then went to Lebanon, which hasn’t been the same since.


8 posted on 08/11/2008 6:08:38 PM PDT by TWohlford
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Several Palestinians have died in recent months in the tunnels,

Ask me if I give a sh!t!

10 posted on 08/11/2008 6:12:44 PM PDT by danmar (Tomorrow's life is too late. Live today!)
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To: abu afak
Oh the Humanity!

Oh wait.... Palestinians?

Gaza?

Never mind.

11 posted on 08/11/2008 6:22:15 PM PDT by P-Marlowe (LPFOKETT GAHCOEEP-w/o*)
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To: abu afak

The more of these subhumans that (notice, I delibertely didn’t say “who”) die miserably in this type of “work accident,” the better.


12 posted on 08/11/2008 6:36:25 PM PDT by libstripper
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To: TWohlford

Jordan still is 70% “Palestinian”.. even since the Expulsion/Killing in ‘Black September’ 1970 when King Hussein prevented Arafat from Turning Jordan into THEE palestinian state it was.

and yes, the palestinians were the ‘straw that broke the camels back’ so to speak.. a few years later the Lebanese Civil War kicked- the palestinians (muslims) a significant catalyst.


13 posted on 08/11/2008 6:44:20 PM PDT by abu afak (Mellita, domi adsum)
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To: abu afak

Work related?


14 posted on 08/11/2008 8:10:57 PM PDT by TASMANIANRED (TAZ:Untamed, Unpredictable, Uninhibited.)
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To: abu afak
Must've been all those Obama T-Shirts they'd ordered.
15 posted on 08/11/2008 8:11:13 PM PDT by 1066AD
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16 posted on 08/11/2008 8:13:41 PM PDT by montag813
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The important news here is that the Egyptians are shutting them down.

These tunnels cannot be kept secret. Everybody knows where the entrances are. No way can you do all this engineering and moving of goods without it being obvious. This is a problem for all smuggling tunnels, in Egypt and on our border. They are fixed targets.


17 posted on 08/11/2008 11:01:38 PM PDT by sinanju
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... a smuggling tunnel between Egypt and the Gaza Strip which collapsed ...

Tisk tisk. Somebody wasn't paying attention during roof support class at the jihad school.

18 posted on 08/11/2008 11:27:28 PM PDT by kitchen (Any day without a fair tax thread is a good day.)
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