[sam_paine]

Ivan, I skimmed the article repetitively. Help me out here. Is it true that this article says the IDF actually found some barrels in the water?!?! And that when firing on them, that one of these barrels purportedly blew up...just like , say, an empty fuel barrel might blow up on my by 30 acres??

My goodness, they DID catch the palis with barrels, didn't they? Otherwise they might have described their contents.

[MadIvan]

Ivan, I skimmed the article repetitively. Help me out here. Is it true that this article says the IDF actually found some barrels in the water?!?! And that when firing on them, that one of these barrels purportedly blew up...just like , say, an empty fuel barrel might blow up on my by 30 acres??

The article also points out that barrels like these are used by the Palestinians to store weapons. I doubt it blowing up was coincidental under these circumstances.

Regards, Ivan

[Cachelot]

My goodness, they DID catch the palis with barrels, didn't they? Otherwise they might have described their contents.

Oh, they probably will since they actually recovered some of them. Control yourself - they'll have to open them first, which may not be just a question of flipping off the lids since they may also be booby-trapped.

[jwfiv]

Sammy, yer tripping over your own good intentions in your determination to make no judgement that might disfavor the Palestinian terrorists...and beginning to look rather foolish in that tripping.

The terrorist, murdering scum have a long and intricate pattern behind them of smuggling arms and bad things into Gaza through the off-shore drop method. Statistical reasoning, a friendly wager, or intuition alone would lead one to connect the dots and see the barrels as that pattern continued.

I hear your name sake saying "Tsk, tsk.".