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World Jewish News
Egypt finds massive arms cache along Israel border
15.05.2009
Egyptian security forces have uncovered hundreds of weapons and explosive devices hidden along the Sinai Peninsula's border with Israel, the Arabic-language Al-Quds al-Arabiyeh reported on Friday.
According to the report, forces found 266 rockets, 40 mines, 50 mortar shells, 20 hand grenades and at least three anti-aircraft missiles.
No suspects have yet been arrested in the incident, security forces told the paper.
Meanwhile, the Lebanese newspaper Al-Mustakbal reported Friday that earlier this year Egyptian forces arrested four members of Iran's Revolutionary Guard suspected of organizing an espionage ring on Egyptian territory.
The ring was apparently headed by an Iranian intelligence official who entered Egypt using a forged Iraqi passport, according to the report.
Egyptian security forces last months discovered five smuggling tunnels along the country's border with the Gaza Strip, through which the Iran-backed Hezbollah militant group was allegedly planning to deliver explosives designated for terror attacks against Israel.
According to reports, the Hezbollah cell had coordinated its attacks with Israeli Arab citizens.
Also on Friday, Egyptian police shot and killed an African migrant near the border with Israel.
The man, who was shot four times in the chest and abdomen, was not carrying any documents proving his identity or nationality, the medical source said.
The security source said an Egyptian patrol detected him trying to infiltrate into Israel and ordered him to stop, opening fire when he did not.
For years Egypt tolerated tens of thousands of Africans on its territory but its attitude hardened after it came under pressure to halt rising numbers of Africans trying to cross into Israel.
In November, U.S.-based rights group Human Rights Watch called on Egypt to stop shooting African migrants.
Источник: Haaretz
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