The day Gaza's Berlin Wall came down

[msmcghee]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/01/23/wgaza323.xml

By Tim Butcher on Egyptian side of Gaza's border
Last Updated: 7:11am GMT 24/01/2008


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Fertilizer, broken down into half bags for lugging through the many tunnels that arms smugglers normally use for delivery into Gaza, was to be seen as it was manhandled overland.

It was white, oily, crystalline and a dab on the tongue left a sharp, burning sensation.

In most countries fertilizer has a perfectly innocent function but in Gaza militants use it to make explosive.

"Hey, hey, hey," shouted a man as I took a photograph of a pile of fertiliser half bags.

His aggressive tone jarred with the mood of the crowd as he grabbed my camera lens firmly.

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[tekisui]

1. Why can't I recommend threads from this forum?

K and ?

[Vegasaurus]

2. Must be a lot of new gardening going on in Gaza nt

[bemildred]

3. Dupe.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=124x197797

[msmcghee]

4. Ooops. It's been a long day. My apologies. n/t