As Egyptians headed to the polls this morning for their first free elections in years the newly repaired Sinai pipeline that delivers gas to Israel and Jordan was attacked for the second time in less than a week. The video above is from the pipeline explosion on Thursday morning in the Sinai. The second from today, within about 100 feet from Thursdays explosion.
A message in the sand: ‘We will not allow gas exports to Israel’
CAIRO — Attackers set off explosives early Monday along a gas pipeline in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula that transports fuel to neighboring Israel and Jordan, forcing a shutdown and halting exports, the state news agency MENA reported.
The attack on the pipeline was the second this month and the eighth since the popular uprising that ousted longtime Egyptian leader Hosni Mubarak in February.
Abdel-Wahab Mabrouk, the governor of North Sinai province, told MENA that the assailants placed explosives near the town of el-Arish in three separate places along the line that transports natural gas. Two blasts caused huge fires but the third charge did not explode, he said.
Selling gas to Israel has been unpopular on the Egyptian street since the opening of the pipeline in 2008. Mubarak has been accused of giving Israel a sweetheart deal on the gas, since Egypt lost more than $714 million on the pact.
these videos are a pyro’s dream come true. i’d love to witness something like this. (not advocating it of course)
Egypt will soon be cutting Israel and Jordan 8 billion dollar checks each. Nothing like getting their new democracy off to a good start!
The bad deal the Egyptians got on their gas sounds like the latest chapter in the long history of western exploitation. The Suez canal was supposed to help the Egyptians but European countries and companies made all the money; when Nasser tried to make it function for the first time to primarily benefit of the Egyptian people, France Britain and Israel invaded to tried to take it back.
good for them…..viva la revolucion!!
RE: “Selling gas to Israel has been unpopular on the Egyptian street since the opening of the pipeline in 2008. Mubarak has been accused of giving Israel a sweetheart deal on the gas, since Egypt lost more than $714 million on the pact.” ~ JTA
SEE: The Politics of Power Cuts in Egypt: Are Mubarak’s Gas Sales to Israel Partly to Blame? ~ by Mohamed Wake, Counterpunch, 9/02/10
SOURCE – http://www.counterpunch.org/2010/09/02/the-politics-of-power-cuts-in-egypt/