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del.icio.us Digg It!  new Last update - 23:04 19/10/2007 Egypt arrests 18 Eritreans planning to sneak into Israel By Associated Press Egyptian police arrested a group of 18 Eritreans traveling on a tourist bus through the Sinai desert Friday on suspicions that they were intending to illegally cross into Israel, a Sinai security official said. The Eritreans, among them a woman, were arrested after crossing the Suez Canal by ferry into the Sinai on a tourist bus, the official said on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the press. During questioning, the Africans admitted that they paid U.S. $300 for a middle man to take them to Sinai as tourists, where they were to meet a smuggler to help them cross the borders illegally, he added. Advertisement A flood of mostly Africans seeking employment opportunities across the border in the past year has prompted Israel to call for stricter Egyptian controls on the frontier. Since that time, Egyptian border guards have killed or wounded several people as they tried to sneak into Israel. On Friday, a Turkish man shot by police as he tried to cross died of his wounds. Egyptian police also arrested a 30-year-old Ethiopian woman Friday at the border itself as she tried to cross the barbed wire dividing Egypt and Israel. Israel estimates that 2,800 people have entered the country illegally through its border with Egypt in recent years, nearly all from Africa Bookmark to del.icio.us Administrative orphans Six Hebron children, whose parents were arrested, were left with their grandmother. Change the past Father of Jewish psychology suggests avoiding picking away at the scars of the past.   1.   Lucky Eritreans even though they don`t think so 23:35  |  Chick 19/10/07   2.   Solution: a high wall along the border 23:44  |  Aaron 19/10/07   3.   Chick: Your analysis is very shallow 23:57  |  Pharaoh 19/10/07   4.   to pharaoh- You wouldn`t be accepted as a border guard 01:18  |  Chick 20/10/07   5.   Very Telling 04:22  |  Jason, Ph.D. 20/10/07   6.   Egyptian Border Guards should treat the arms smugglers 05:48  |  * BEN JABO 20/10/07   7.   they escape for to get a better life 10:33  |  dovale 20/10/07   8.   what about the gaza border!!!! 12:49  |  MATILDA 20/10/07   9.   Jason, Ph.D., very telling indeed! 15:28  |  akiva (zionist) 20/10/07   10.   Pharoah 22:19  |  Margie in Tel Aviv 20/10/07   11.   #7 Dovale 23:00  |  * BEN JABO 20/10/07

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