Egyptian Police “Find” Explosives in Sinai
Charles Johnson
Fri Nov 10, 2006 at 9:39 am PST • Views: 218
Huge quantities of explosives and weaponry are smuggled into Gaza from Egypt on a daily basis, and every once in a while the Egyptian government stages a bust to make it look like they’re trying to stop it: Egypt seizes explosives in Gaza frontier town.
CAIRO (AFP) - Egyptian security forces have said they had seized a quantity of explosives from a man planning to smuggle them into the Gaza Strip in a tunnel dug under the border.
The explosives were found in a car in the Egyptian part of the town of Rafah straddling the Egypt-Gaza border, a security source said Friday, without specifying the size of the find.
The driver admitted planning to smuggle the explosives into the Gaza Strip with the help of a friend, also an Egyptian, the source said, adding that in a search of the friend’s house they uncovered the entrance to a narrow tunnel concealed under a wardrobe.
It was the third time this month the Egyptian authorities reported intercepting shipments of explosives in the Sinai bordering the Gaza Strip.
If they’ve had to stage three of these explosives busts already this month, that gives you an idea how much explosive material is really being smuggled in, as Hamas continues building up for all-out war.
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