Egypt holds gas supply to Israel and Jordan after pipeline explosion

[azurnoir]

Saboteurs blew up a pipeline that runs through Egypt's Northern Sinai, state television reported on Saturday, disrupting flows to Israel and Jordan after Islamist groups called on militants to exploit the unrest that has rocked the government.

Egyptian state television quoted an official on Saturday as saying that the "situation is very dangerous and explosions were continuing from one spot to another" along the pipeline, adding that "it is a big terrorist operation."

A security source in North Sinai said "foreign elements" targeted the branch of the pipe that supplies Jordan.

The Egyptian army closed the main source of gas supplying the pipeline and were trying to control the fires. Television footage on Al Jazeera and Al Arabiya showed a tower of flames at the scene of the blast.

Following the explosion, Israel Radio said, quoting sources in the consortium overseeing imports, that the blast did not target supplies to Israel but they had been halted as a precaution.

http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/egypt-holds-gas-supply-to-israel-and-jordan-after-pipeline-explosion-1.341368

[golddigger]

1. Inside job. And I'll leave it at that.

[bemildred]

3. Black block, black block ...

[Arctic Dave]

2. I read on another post it was a gas leak and not sabotage,

[azurnoir]

4. ah but that's not 'fun' sorta like Charlie Sheen dieing from Natural causes n/t

[bemildred]

5. How did the leak get there, that's the question!!!!!

Was natural causes, or was it SABOTAGE!!!!!
:-)

[azurnoir]

6. word from Hosni-

You're Scheming On A Thing That's A Mirage
I'm Trying To Tell You Now It's Sabotage
Why; Our Backs Are Now Against The Wall
Listen All Of Y'all It's A Sabotage

;)