September 14, 2005
THANKS, HOSNI:
Egypt destroys tunnel to Gaza after finding arms (Tom Perry, 9/14/05, Reuters)
Egyptian border guards destroyed a tunnel to the Palestinian-ruled Gaza Strip after finding guns and grenades in it, a reassuring action for Israel two days after it left Gaza.Posted by Orrin Judd at September 14, 2005 12:00 AM"The opening of a tunnel was found ... and it went to the other (Gaza) side of the border," an Egyptian security official, who asked not to be identified, told Reuters on Wednesday. He said it was discovered near the Rafah border crossing.
Israel says Palestinians have long smuggled arms from Egypt.
Egypt has begun deploying 750 border guards along the 12-km (seven-mile) border with Gaza under an agreement to help Israel end 38 years of control of the strip, home to 1.4 million Palestinians.
If they were serious, they would have blown up the tunnel with the terrorists in it.
Short of that, this is just more theater. We've seen these stories before.
Posted by: ratbert at September 14, 2005 3:57 PMwhen?
Posted by: oj at September 14, 2005 4:03 PMTry a Google search on "Egypt Gaza tunnel weapons". You'll find over 93,000 hits. Within the first four pages, there are five articles referring to Egyptian discoveries of tunnels. The Israeli media have lots of stuff (along with the IDF) about discoveries they made. There are articles from South Korea, Singapore, etc. A few from the Wash. Times. Not much from the US media herd (no surprise).
The Palestinians (Hamas and Islamic Jihad) are drunk right now. Time to sober them up. Do you think the PA is up to it?
Posted by: ratbert at September 15, 2005 4:12 PM