> I don't read this list like that. If none of the barrier methods work
> (and according to this list, they don't), the sensor methods don't
> really help much. They tell you what you already know: there are
> 300-400 tunnels down there. Then you have bomb them, which is pretty
> much what they're doing now. And then they build again, you bomb
> again, and you have exactly the porous set up you have now. It works
> to stop tunnels into Israel, but not into Egypt. The bombing can't be
> pinpoint (because they're underground where you can't actually see and
> 60 feet of dirt is an enormous protective barrier). And this doesn't
> even begin to deal with countermeasures like shoring up tunnels to
> withstand bombing or figuring out how to decoy the sensors.
>
> It's kind of amazing, really. It seems like yet another testament to
> Dwayne's postulate that in the long term there is no technological fix
> that can stop determined low-tech human inventiveness.
>
The failure to stop the smuggling isn't because a technological fix is impossible. It's because the authorities on one side of the border (Egypt) have been less than totally committed to stopping the smuggling. If the US and Israel can work out an arrangement now with their friend Mubarak, the tunneling will stop....I'm skeptical about the unstoppable power of low-tech human inventiveness. Israel built a wall to keep out suicide bombers and the suicide bombing almost totally stopped.
SA