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To: Alan Smithee who wrote (177891)	8/30/2006 3:30:28 PM
From: Tom Clarke	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793896

Ah, right. A pardon for Libby should be in the works then....

To: Alan Smithee who wrote (177891)	8/30/2006 4:04:13 PM
From: KLP	Respond to of 793896

Israel Blows Up Gaza Terror Tunnel By Julie Stahl CNSNews.com Jerusalem Bureau Chief August 30, 2006 cnsnews.com Jerusalem (CNSNews.com) - Israeli forces on Wednesday blew up a tunnel in the Gaza Strip that Palestinians may have been planning to use to carry out a "large-scale" attack against the main goods crossing into Israel, the army said. Israeli forces launched an operation to search for tunnels and explosives in the Sajaiyeh neighborhood of Gaza over the weekend. Since then, as many as 16 people have been killed, most of them militants. The offensive in Sajaiyeh is the latest in a round of operations that Israel launched in the Gaza Strip in June following the abduction of an Israeli soldier, Corporal Gilad Shalit. On Wednesday, the army said it had located a tunnel whose shaft was 13 meters (42 feet) deep and 150 meters in length (488 feet). The tunnel originated in a building in the residential area of Sajaiyeh, the army said, and had been dug in the direction of the Karni crossing - the main supply route for all goods from Israel to the Gaza Strip. "The tunnel was intended to be used to carry out a large-scale terror attack, apparently against the crossing itself," the army said. United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan called on Israel on Wednesday to open the crossings points between Israel and the Gaza Strip. The United Nations World Food Program warned earlier this week of a growing crisis in the Gaza Strip. Israel has frequently closed the crossing points against the threat of terror attacks. The Karni crossing is the main lifeline for the Palestinians. Goods are transferred into and out of the Gaza Strip there through a complex system of transfers through a concrete wall in which the two sides never come in contact with each other. Karni itself has been the target of previous terror attacks during the last few years, resulting in the deaths of a number of Israelis and some Palestinians. Terrorists have also exploited the crossing points as avenues to reach inside Israel and carry out attacks. "[The] targeting [of Karni] by the terror organizations ... is a deliberate attempt by terrorists to weaken the Palestinian economy," the army spokesperson said in a statement. "The targeting of these crossings, which are reopened again and again after attacks, is a cynical exploitation of the Israeli effort to ease the daily lives of Palestinian civilians who are not involved in terror activity," the spokesperson said. The army said that despite the discovery of the tunnel, the terror threat at the crossing still exists. Palestinians also fired two Kassam rockets into Israel on Wednesday. The head of Israel's Shin Bet secret service said on Tuesday that weapons smuggling into the Gaza Strip through the Rafiah crossing between Gaza and Egypt has grown exponentially since Israel's pullout from the Gaza Strip last year. If it continues, Israel will face the same situation that it faces in Lebanon now, Diskin was quoted as saying in the Jerusalem Post. Some 15,000 guns, 4 million bullets, 2,300 pistols, dozens of anti-tank missiles, 15 tons of TNT, 400 RPGs and at least 10 Katyusha rockets have been smuggled into Gaza, Diskin estimated.