links for 2010-05-07

• BBC News – Gazans cut through Egypt's border barrier
  Although, i have heard that the tunnels go lower than the wall that's being built and that this is for publicity or something.
  "Mohammed, covered in dust and dirt, is in the process of digging a 750m (2,460ft) smuggling tunnel from Gaza into Egypt. He says he's been digging it for 18 months.

  As he hauls up a plastic container of sand with an electric winch from the metre-wide tunnel shaft, he says the new underground Egyptian barrier aimed at stopping smuggling is a "joke."

  "We just cut through it using high-powered oxygen fuelled blow torches," he says.

  The Egyptian government says it began constructing the barrier along the Gaza-Egypt border last year. When finished it is meant to be 11km-long (seven miles), stretching down 18m (59ft) underground.

  According to Egypt it is made of bomb-proof, super-strength steel and is costing millions of dollars to build. "

  (tags: egypt gaza zionist)