TNT in the Sinai

AP/Haaretz:

Egyptian Police have retrieved 1,400 kilograms (3,086 pounds) of explosives buried in two separate caches in Sinai, security officials said Friday.

The intended use of the explosives is under investigation, but preliminary indications were that a cache of 1,000 kilograms (2,200 pounds) found 30 kilometers (20 miles) east of Gaza was to be smuggled across the border. A second cache of 400 kilograms (882 pounds) found east of the Suez Canal city of Ismailiya appeared to be for Egyptian militants.

The discoveries are the second large haul of explosives in Sinai in eight days. On October 27, police seized one ton of explosives in the Rissan mountains, 30 kilometers (20 miles) east of Israel.

Captain Mohammed Badr of North Sinai police said local Bedouin tribesmen on Friday led the police to the first cache, packed in 15 sacks, in the desert district of Gifgafa, about 100 kilometers (60 miles) south of El Arish.

A local clan leader, Sheik Mohammed el-Ghanem, said he believed the explosives were going to be smuggled into Gaza.

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Egypt has apparently hired the Bedouin trackers to help stop the smuggling. They clearly have much more work to do. They also need to concentrate on finding the tunnel entrances on the Egyptian side of the border. That would be a good starting point in walking back the smuggling cat.

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