'Terror attack on Egypt-Israel gas pipeline in El-Arish'

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By JPOST.COM STAFF AND ASSOCIATED PRESS 
02/05/2011 09:58

Egyptian state television reports masked men set off detonation at pipeline in northern Sinai causing massive flames; gas supply to Israel cut off following explosion; Jerusalem monitoring situation.

  A group of masked men set off a detonation at the Israel-Egypt gas pipeline in El-Arish, Egypt in the northern Sinai early on Saturday morning, Egyptian state television reported.
Residents say they heard the sound of an explosion, and that massive flames shot into the air. Egyptian state television referred to the incident as a "terrorist" attack.

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Egypt holds gas supply to Israel and Jordan after pipeline explosion 

Security source in Sinai says 'foreign elements' targeted the pipe that supplies Jordan; Egypt supplies Israel with over 40 percent of its natural gas.

By Avi Issacharoff, Barak Ravid and Reuters

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."

	Flames billow into the sky after an explosion at a gas terminal in Egypt's northern Sinai Peninsula, February 5, 2011.

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Israel, Jordan gas cut after Egypt pipeline attack

by Jailan Zayan Jailan Zayan – Sat Feb 5, 2:45 pm ET

CAIRO (AFP) – Saboteurs attacked an Egyptian gas pipeline to Jordan on Saturday, forcing authorities to switch off supplies from a twin pipeline to Israel, an official said, as anti-regime protests raged in Cairo.

Attackers used explosives against the pipeline in the town of Lihfen in northern Sinai, near the Gaza Strip, the official told AFP. It was initially thought the pipeline to Israel was targeted.

"The pipeline to Jordan has been attacked and the supply to Israel has been cut off," the official said.

The army has taken precautionary measures to stop the fire from spreading, the official added, as rescue services were putting out the flames.

It was not immediately clear who was responsible, or whether the attack was linked to the deadly protests against President Hosni Mubarak's rule, which entered their 12th day on Saturday.

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