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Egypt hiding weapons in tunnels: Evidence of WMD program concealed in area of Libya border
WorldNetDaily.com ^ | Friday, February 14, 2003

Posted on 02/13/2003 10:54:51 PM PST by JohnHuang2

For years, Egypt has been engaged in missile and weapons of mass destruction programs with countries such as Iraq and North Korea, reports Geostrategy-Direct, the online intelligence newsletter. The problem was that CIA had difficulty uncovering these programs.

Now, after years of searching, the CIA has come up with the reason.

Egypt has devised a concealment and deception program that exceeds that of North Korea's, intelligence operatives say. Many of the Egyptian missile and WMD programs are based in the Sahara and huge Western deserts between Egypt and Libya.

The two countries have built a series of tunnels along the Egyptian-Libyan border. The tunnels conceal development and production of North Korean missiles and nuclear weapons components from the prying eyes of Israeli and U.S. spy satellites.

North Korea reportedly built the tunnel network. Pyongyang used its expertise in digging its way to South Korea for the Egyptian and Libyan concealment program.

North Korea currently is working on a mega-tunnel project through Libya. Thousands of North Korean workers are building a reinforced concrete tunnel that is 1,300 feet underground and can't be destroyed even by U.S. nuclear weapons. Or, at least that is the hope by Egypt and the Libyans.

The presence of so many North Korean as well as Filipinos in Libya has not been easy to hide. That's where the deception comes in. Libyan ruler Moammar Gadhafi has told Western guests that the laborers are going to build a 2,000-mile tunnel from Egypt to Tunisia in what the colonel calls the "Great Man-Made River Project."

Quietly, U.S. officials have probed Egypt for information on the project. Egyptian officials, who have stymied every U.S. investigation on Iraqi- or North Korean-linked WMD programs, have shrugged their shoulders.




TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: axisofevil; bosnia; clinton; dongah; egypt; geostrategydirect; iraq; libya; mubarak; nkorea; northkorea; nukes; philippines; proliferation; wmd
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Friday, February 14, 2003

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1 posted on 02/13/2003 10:54:51 PM PST by JohnHuang2
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To: JohnHuang2
I read a book about bin-Laden indicating that the Clinton administration agreed to look the other way while Al-Qaeda tried to assassinate Mubarak in Sudan in exchange for not upsetting the Bosnia deployment.

The book indicated that the attempt failed and Mubarak found out about the deal. The book indicated that this is the point that Egyptian press really started turning anti-Israel and anti-American and that Mubarak has been hard to deal with ever since.

Bin Laden: The Man Who Declared War on America by Yossef Bodansky. I would recommend the book.
2 posted on 02/13/2003 11:04:08 PM PST by Arkinsaw
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To: Arkinsaw
If true, can you blame him? Mubarak is obviously not a freeper otherwise he would know all about Bill Clinton.
3 posted on 02/13/2003 11:14:40 PM PST by spyone
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To: spyone
If true, can you blame him? Mubarak is obviously not a freeper otherwise he would know all about Bill Clinton.

No. For years I kept wondering why Mubarak had turned so sour. He always seemed to be sort of a leaner toward the US position. He was pretty solid during the Gulf War, and then all of a sudden Egypt's press seemed to go fundamentalist and no cooperation.

When I read this in the book it clicked.
4 posted on 02/13/2003 11:26:23 PM PST by Arkinsaw
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To: JohnHuang2

 

 

The Great Man-Made River Project

Libya is constructing a world-class project in the middle of the dessert, but no one even knows what it really is. Some have said that, whatever it is, this project is the Eighth Wonder of the World. What is extraordinarily odd about this particular project is that it has been progressing for over 16 years, and yet it still seems to be a long way from completion.

 

Now, if you asked your neighbor if he ever heard of the Great Man-Made River Project in Libya, there is not much question that he will tell you, "No". This project has a price tag of $25 billion, and currently there are 12,000 foreign workers on the job from morning to night. One would think that some intelligence agency could figure out just what this project may be, but they haven’t yet told us.

 

Meanwhile, the Libyan’s say that they are constructing a 2,500-mile tunnel capable of carrying 7.4 million cubic yards of water a day that will stretch from Tunisia to Egypt. The Libyans say that this tunnel, which is 13 feet in diameter, is going to carry water that will make the entire Libyan Desert bloom. This in an area where the thermometer hits over 100 degrees on a cool day, and for most of the year, there is no rain at all. There is no question that Libya will eventually run out of oil, and if Colonel Mohammar Qadhafi has not found a replacement for oil revenues, or in lieu of that, put a lot of money away for a rainy day, Libya will become another place where a desert rules.

 

The pipe comes in sections 25 yards long, which are carried in massive trucks that seem to buckle under their enormous loads. The drilling rigs, suspended from six-story tall portable units, are capable of boring more that a quarter of a mile into the earth in their search for water. Every fifty or sixty miles, there is a break in the pipe where it flows into a massive water storage facility made of reinforced concrete, thus making it able to withstand almost any natural force. With a great deal of the infrastructure for the project already in place, one would think that the irrigation would have already begun, at least in selected spots. However, but that is not the case, making this project all the more mysterious.

 

In spite of Ronald Reagan having imposed a trade embargo against Libya forbidding U.S. companies or citizens from doing any business with Libya and provides for very substantial fines and long jail terms for anyone who does, American products appear everywhere in the country and American equipment is seen everywhere on the irrigation pipeline: Caterpillar Tractors, Cummings engines, Baker Hughes drilling bits, Dowell Schlumberger cementing units, Price Brothers pipe and Brown and Root brain power. So, what is really going on?

 

Big American Companies are not going to break the law, at least not if they thing they are going to be caught. There are ways around the Presidential Action, and for example, a subsidiary of an American company domiciled overseas could legally do the work without any particular concern. Tractors can be purchased by European companies and then legitimately resold to Libya, as the countries in Europe that are depended on Libyan oil have no such onerous restrictions.

 

Some who study this subject for a living contend that in dealing with Qadhafi, one is dealing with a paranoid personality who believes he will be attacked by almost anyone at almost time. We would counter that statement by saying that within the last year, Gandhi has been far more forthcoming, if only because of his surprising decision to turn over the suspects in the Lockerbie bombing to an internationally sanctioned court in the Netherlands.

 

Theories as to Qadhafi’s real motives in building his tunnel are legion. For example, people say that the diameter of the pipe is over twice that which would be necessary for an irrigation project. They wonder why the pipe hooks up to Libya’s chemical weapons facility located near a mountain called Tarhuna on the Mediterranean, and they cannot fathom why the chemical plant would need irrigation. They ask why the system has been so strongly reinforced, why it is big enough for tanks to roll through it and why is so deep that even some atomic weapons could not reach it, etc, etc. Military experts say that at the very least, it will give the Libyan military the ability to conceal their activities from satellite spy networks, or from just about anything else for that matter. Others say that the water storage facilities could be used to hold a company or more of troops and the food to feed them, along with the facilities to house them.

 

One of the most negative comments heard on the project comes from a world-class expert in the field, Paul Beaver, a reporter with Jane’s Defense Weekly, who said, "This is the first real evidence of something which has been suspected for several years. Qadhafi seems to have taken a leaf out of Kim IL Sung’s book and created a potential military arsenal underground." The fact that the general contractor on the job for the Libyan government is Dong Ah, a Korean company that has had numerous run-ins with the American government over illegally exporting items to Iran, makes a lot of people nervous. Dong Ah has already paid a $3 million fine for illegally exporting drilling equipment from the United States to Libya. They also bought anti-corrosive pipe chemicals in Texas for this project to be shipped to Libya, and they are under investigation for that matter, as well.

 

In the meantime, everyone who could be interviewed for information regarding Libya’s intent has been questioned, and there are few solid answers. For the moment, let us assume that Qadhafi has created a mixed-use pipeline that can be used for irrigation, along with the storage and transportation of war material and personnel. Whatever it is, it is certainly "the Mother of All Pipelines" and is large enough to hold two simultaneous titles, until we know better. It is the longest irrigation tunnel on the face of the earth, and it is the most expensive military installation ever created, or possibly neither.

5 posted on 02/14/2003 12:04:32 AM PST by per loin
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To: per loin
Fascinating article. Thanks for posting it.

I wish that it really were some peaceable enterprise, like an irrigation tunnel. Knowing Khadaffi though, I will believe it when I see it.
6 posted on 02/14/2003 12:33:10 AM PST by Riley
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To: Riley
I'm surprised at how little publicized this tunnel project is.
7 posted on 02/14/2003 12:47:03 AM PST by per loin
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To: Riley
This is a classic case of where the CIA needs a spy on the ground. How much does it cost to bribe a N. Korean civil engineer anyway?
8 posted on 02/14/2003 4:37:44 AM PST by Ranger
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To: JohnHuang2
North Korea currently is working on a mega-tunnel project through Libya. Thousands of North Korean workers are building a reinforced concrete tunnel that is 1,300 feet underground and can't be destroyed even by U.S. nuclear weapons. Or, at least that is the hope by Egypt and the Libyans.

A half-dozen tactical bunker nukes, dropped on the same location at intervals of a minute or two, would open this pipeline up to us.

Q'Daffy shouldn't be too sure he's so safe.
9 posted on 02/14/2003 6:00:11 AM PST by George W. Bush
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To: Ranger
One of the biggest mistakes of the CIA in the past couple of decades was to reduce the human spy effort in favor of listening devices. We should start recruiting Christian Arabs by the thousands, give them the training, and send them back to the Middle East to spy for us. Christian Arabs love this country, and have no love lost with the Moslem Arabs.
10 posted on 02/14/2003 6:13:20 AM PST by philosofy123
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To: JohnHuang2
Nowdays,seems like there is another swarthy North Korean underneath every overturned rock.
11 posted on 02/14/2003 11:17:40 AM PST by Minutemen
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To: philosofy123
Thank the Nobel prize winner, Carter, for the reduction of the Humint intelligence efforts.
12 posted on 02/14/2003 11:26:12 AM PST by rollin
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To: belmont_mark
Ping.
13 posted on 02/14/2003 11:29:39 AM PST by swarthyguy
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To: JohnHuang2; Jeff Head
It's hard to tell the real purpose of this release of info, but it does hint at the possibility of wider-spreading acivity in the WOT.
14 posted on 02/14/2003 11:33:49 AM PST by meadsjn
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To: philosofy123
One of the biggest mistakes of the CIA in the past couple of decades was to reduce the human spy effort in favor of listening devices.

You can thank the late Democrat Senator Frank Church of Idaho and other Democrats for that. The Church Committee cut the hearts out of our HUMINT services back in the 70s and made it necessary to rely on machines. It's clear that Democrats hate America and Americans. 9-11 was proof of that, if we needed any.

15 posted on 02/14/2003 11:41:59 AM PST by Bernard Marx
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To: per loin
Good article. If that tunnel really is for irrigation, it's a good thing. It would be a positive move for Middle Eastern and other third-world countries to use more of their engineering resources for infrastructure and economic development.

IIRC, the current Sahara desert was vegetated prior to the last glacial melt-off 10k to 12K year ago. At least parts of the belt would support plants with irrigation help.

16 posted on 02/14/2003 11:55:38 AM PST by meadsjn
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To: Shermy; Alamo-Girl; Cindy; Howlin
fyi
17 posted on 02/11/2004 3:04:58 AM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge.)
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To: piasa
Thank you Piasa.
18 posted on 02/11/2004 3:20:28 AM PST by Cindy
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To: Cindy
You're welcome.
19 posted on 02/11/2004 3:29:56 AM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge.)
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To: piasa; swarthyguy
Pakistani military officials often defend their programs talking about the middle east, rather than India.

Tip off they supplied nukes to Egypt and Saudi???
20 posted on 02/11/2004 10:15:21 AM PST by Shermy
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