Hamas cuts down Gaza wallBuckshot wanted me to post this as a reason why building a wall on the border of Mexico wouldn't work. I don't agree with that though. I don't think the Mexicans have the intelligence or the drive to pull something like this off. We also have to remember that Israel pulled out of this territory, so it's is essentially unguarded, and where it was guarded, it was done so by the people that blew up the wall. In effect, an inside job. Our wall would be guarded by the US Border Patrol, not the Mexicans. And besides, a wall is alot more secure than what we got in place now.
As tens of thousands of Palestinians clambered back and forth between the Gaza strip and Egypt today, details emerged of the audacious operation that brought down a hated border wall and handed the Islamist group Hamas what might be its greatest propaganda coup.
But a Hamas border guard interviewed by The Times at the border admitted that the Islamist group was responsible and had been involved for months in slicing through the heavy metal wall using oxy-acetylene cutting torches.
That meant that when the explosive charges were set off in 17 different locations between midnight and 1am the 40ft wall came tumbling down, leaving it lying like a broken concertina down the middle of no-man's land as an estimated 350,000 Gazans flooded into Egypt.
The guard, Lieutenant Abu Usama of the Palestinian National Security, said of the cutting operation: "I've seen this happening over the last few months. It happened in the daytime but was covered up so that nobody would see."
Asked whether he had reported it to the government, he replied: "It was the government that was doing this. Who would I report it to?"
