In September 2005 it was reported:

"....For the first time in 30 years, Egyptian soldiers will be deployed in the Sinai desert not as the result of UN machinations or Egyptian nationalism but as a result of a specific Israeli request. Cairo’s troops are expected to guard against hostile actions by Palestinian terror groups after the Israeli withdrawl from Gaza. By a vote of 53 to 28, on August 31, the Knesset approved the agreement with Egypt detailing the handover of the Philadelphi corridor. Early on September 12, the IDF withdrew from the seven-and-a-half mile border between Gaza and Egypt, and Egyptian soldiers moved in to take over security and to counter smuggling by Palestinians......"

......it appears to me Egyptian/Gaza border security evaporated after the IDF withdrew....as usual the Muslims lied when they talked about border security to counter smuggling by Palestinians.....

.....the Egyptians and the Palestinians have been laughing about this one ever since...

Posted by: exsgtbrown at July 19, 2007 8:34 AM

Send more cash! This stuff does't come cheap.

Posted by: pr126 at July 19, 2007 8:36 AM

Is it certain Olmert didn't donate these weapons as part of his exterminate Israel campaign? I wouldn't put it past him given the crazy way he operates.

Posted by: ISLAMSFORLOSERS at July 19, 2007 8:50 AM

It's just a matter of time now. War with the hamasses is coming, I pray Israel is better prepared this go arround.

Posted by: AMartinez at July 19, 2007 8:52 AM

"...If Hamas is so adept at smuggling, let them smuggle food as well...."

....they do not have to smuggle food...they simply steal the food donated and delivered by the stupid American aid agencies who advertise on TV..."help feed the needy"....The stolen food is then sold by Hamas, who then use the money to buy more guns....

Posted by: exsgtbrown at July 19, 2007 8:55 AM

Article Eight: The Slogan of the Hamas
Allah is its goal, the Prophet its model, the Qur’an its Constitution, Jihad its path and death for the case of Allah its most sublime belief.
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May the God of Israel soon grant these muslim sons of bithces their wish. Verily and in our time, AMEN.

Posted by: Ynkedoodl2 at July 19, 2007 9:25 AM

20th century health care and 7th century baby factories - a prescription for explosive aggression.

It's the Eurosocialists who are fueling the Gaza disaster in the making.

Posted by: dgene at July 19, 2007 9:30 AM

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/07/15/nterr215.xml

Up to 4,000 Islamic extremists have attended terrorist training camps in Afghanistan before returning to Britain, security chiefs have revealed.

'Dirty bomb' plotter Dhiren Barot

The alarming figure raises fresh questions about UK border controls and the capacity of the intelligence and security services to keep the country safe.

It demonstrates how Gordon Brown's plans for tighter checks on people entering Britain, unveiled last week, will come too late to keep out many dangerous individuals.

Afghanistan was the centre for al-Qaeda terrorist training between 1996, when the Taliban regime came to power, and the end of 2001, when America and Britain invaded. Since then the focus has shifted to areas of Pakistan along the Afghan border.

More than 400,000 journeys are made each year between Britain and Pakistan, the vast majority of them legitimate. It is not known how many travellers continue their journey overland into Afghanistan.

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A senior security source said of the al-Qaeda camps: "There are 3,000 to 4,000 people who went from the UK to Afghanistan and came back. The important question is, where are they now?" The figure is more than double the estimate of 1,600 which MI5 gave last autumn for the number of individuals actively involved in plotting terrorist attacks in the UK.

There are several possible explanations for the gap. Some of those who came back to Britain from Afghanistan may since have given up terrorist activities. Others may have left the UK to fight in Iraq.

MI5 and MI6 are working on the assumption, however, that al-Qaeda sees its British Muslim recruits as too valuable to be used in Iraq, and that most are ordered to return to their communities in Britain to establish autonomous terrorist "sleeper cells". Concerns over sleeper cells have been heightened since the failed "doctors' plot" attacks in London and Glasgow two weeks ago.

Estimates for the total number of extremists who have received weapons training and religious instruction at al-Qaeda camps, mostly in Afghanistan, have ranged from 20,000 to 70,000. Until now, intelligence sources have said it was impossible to estimate how many of those were British residents.

Terrorists who are believed to have trained in Afghanistan include Richard Reid, from Bromley, Kent, and Saajid Badat, from Gloucester, who both jailed for plotting to blow up aircraft with shoe bombs.

Andrew Rowe, a Londoner of Jamaican origin serving 15 years for terrorist offences, trained at one such camp in Afghanistan. Dhiren Barot, brought up in London and now serving 30 years for plotting a "dirty bomb" attack in Britain, trained in either Afghanistan or Pakistan.

Others believed to have trained in Pakistan include Mohammad Sidique Khan, the leader of the July 7 2005 bombers; Muktar Said Ibrahim, the leader of the failed July 21 bomb plot, and most members of the "Operation Crevice" plot to blow up nightclubs or shopping centres with fertiliser bombs. The Terrorism Act 2006 made it illegal to attend a terrorist training camp.

Last week, Ronald K Noble, secretary general of Interpol, accused the Government of failing to check people entering the country against a database of terrorist suspects.

Hours after The Sunday Telegraph revealed his criticism, the Prime Minister admitted that the sharing of data between countries needed to be improved "as a matter of urgency".

Details have emerged of a classified US intelligence report which says that al-Qaeda has regrouped along the Afghan-Pakistan border and is now in a stronger position that it was before the September 11, 2001 attacks on New York. John Kringen, head of the CIA analysis directorate, said: "We see more training. We see more money. We see more communications. We see that activity rising."

Dame Stella Rimington, the former MI5 chief, called last week for stronger border controls. She said: "We have realised that the free movement of people is a great concept but if you have people who would kill you, there have got to be a lot more checks.".

Documents discovered at abandoned al-Qaeda camps following the fall of the Taliban revealed how recruits were schooled in the use of small arms, as well as anti-armour and anti-aircraft weapons. Those selected for elite training would learn assassination skills or espionage techniques.

Forms and correspondence found at the ruined camps also showed that the operation was carefully-managed with paperwork in various languages including Arabic, Urdu, Tajik, Uzbek and Russian, as well as the locally spoken Pashto language.

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Posted by: Borg at July 19, 2007 9:36 AM

Bulldozers. I want lots of bulldozers.

Posted by: A_Plague_on_Both_Houses at July 19, 2007 9:42 AM

Hamas is able to do this because simple minded assholes like Rice and Olmert provide them with millions of dollars. Do they use the money to construct needed infrastructure? Do they use the money for critical aid fro their citizens? No, they use the money in order to kill Israelis.

Posted by: infidel! at July 19, 2007 9:54 AM

Israel has to wait to be attacked before they can defend themselves, how sad. when do they get to elect someone better than this loser Olmert? cannot be fast enough!

Posted by: ZenaWarriorPrincess at July 19, 2007 10:05 AM

Israel has to wait to be attacked before they can defend themselves

Posted by: ZenaWarriorPrincess at July 19, 2007 10:05 AM

Israel is being attacked, everyday in fact.

Posted by: km at July 19, 2007 10:14 AM

Tragically, the enemy seems to grow stronger every day, while it seems that our resolve grows weaker every day.

Posted by: One_of_the_last_few_Patriots_left at July 19, 2007 1:20 PM

"Hi-tech weapons in Hamas hands"....should read...."Mad Men with Hi-tech weapons".

Posted by: champ at July 19, 2007 1:54 PM

Twenty tons of explosives, just in one month, eh? Now: depending on the type of explosives, what is THAT likely to have cost? Multiply by twelve to get a year's expenditure on stuff to go boom.

Similarly - how much does it set you back if you want to buy just one nice 'Sagger guided missile', or an anti-tank rocket?

It's always occurred to me to wonder, as I read propaganda garbage about the 'poor Palestinians', exactly how much of their household incomes have been going on ammo and firearms and explosive belts and that sort of thing.

Can anyone here tell me what it costs to put together a state-of-the-art suicide-murderer's bomb belt?

How much does a Kalashnikov cost, in US dollars?

Kassams are supposed to be cheap and homemade, but how cheap is cheap?

How much does a Katyusha cost?

I don't think I have ever seen an MSM report that goes into the economic nitty-gritty: how much X item costs, then, multiply by number of recorded incidents featuring X, or approximate number of people recently photographed in Hamas military parade wearing/ brandishing X.

Posted by: dumbledoresarmy at July 19, 2007 6:02 PM

HOLD THE PHONE!!!

I thought only American arms were getting in there, according to the obsessive maximum leaders of our great & glorious (s)news media!

Saggers are russian design, chinese made! And at last count, they cost a LOT MORE than an M-16 does.
I thought they were innocent, clean & pure as the wind-driven snow & us eeeeeevil American warpigs were doing all the bad naughties! HMMMMMMM????

GEE...wonder how that happened? LOL

Posted by: jcom972 at July 19, 2007 6:56 PM

According to the officer, Hamas recently smuggled 20 tons of explosives into the Gaza Strip in the span of one month. The IDF believes Hamas now possesses a small quantity of anti-aircraft missiles and anti-tank rockets, which are most likely Sagger guided missiles.
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Remember American Patriots....the Islamic Compounds in America...the Muslims pay 30 per cent of their money to terrorists. So the money that helps Hamas and all the other terrorists Organizations/Groups...are coming out of our nation. When do we charge these Islamics in these compounds with treason against America?

Posted by: Cher at July 20, 2007 4:03 AM

The brownshirts of the political correctness gestapo won't allow that...until a million man armed lynchmob swarms the Capitol & reads our great & glorious leaders the riot act.
(and despite some leftyloon spouting "military will stop that!", no they won't...the military knows the enemy within, who their REAL fellow Americans are, and won't fire on their own.)
THEN, and ONLY then, will treason charges come up.

Posted by: jcom972 at July 20, 2007 5:17 AM