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To: bert

WHEN did this “Egyptian subterranean wall” happen? I don’t recall hearing it ANYWHERE. This happen back in Mubarak’s time? I thought the Egyptians had opened their borders with Gaza wide open... In fact, I KNOW they did when Mubarak fell. What’s the REAL story behind this, because it sounds like propaganda....?

The Egyptians installed a sheet piling subterranean wall
———RAFAH, Gaza Strip — A jackhammer pounded large steel beams side by side into the sandy soil on the Egyptian side of Gaza’s border, putting in place an underground wall that could shift the balance of power in this volatile area.

Once completed, the steel barrier would cut off blockaded Gaza’s last lifeline and — by slicing through hundreds of smuggling tunnels under the nine-mile Gaza-Egypt border — could increase pressure on the territory’s Hamas rulers to moderate.


19 posted on 08/20/2011 7:37:24 PM PDT by patriot preacher
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To: patriot preacher

-——WHEN did this “Egyptian subterranean wall” happen? -——

January 2010........ it was discussed here in detail

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34699874/ns/world_news-mideast_n_africa/t/new-egypt-gaza-steel-barrier-angers-hamas/#.TlDpzGFFuso


28 posted on 08/21/2011 4:22:12 AM PDT by bert (K.E. N.P. +12 ....Rats carry plague)
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