Blast in Egypt cuts gas to Israel, Jordan

By artappraiser on Wed, 04/27/2011 - 4:05pm |

By Joel Greenberg, Washington Post, April 27, 2011

JERUSALEM — A natural gas terminal was blown up in Egypt’s northern Sinai Peninsula on Wednesday, forcing the shutdown of a pipeline supplying gas to Israel and Jordan, according to Egyptian and Israeli officials. It was the second such act of sabotage since the start of the upheaval that toppled former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak....

An Egyptian security official told Reuters news agency that “an unknown armed gang attacked the gas pipeline” at the terminal, near the town of El-Arish. The blast sent up a tower of flame and prompted officials to close the pipeline, which also supplies smaller quantities of gas to Syria and Lebanon....

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Reuters, April 27, 2011

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