Israeli Army Mobilizes Camels to Help Patrol Border

(AP/San Francisco Chronicle) - The Israeli military is equipping its anti-smuggling patrols on the Israel-Egypt border with camels, that can go where jeeps, trucks, and even tanks can't. The IDF has rented camels from a firm that usually hires them out to tourists, the soldiers' weekly Bamahane magazine reported.


2004-04-28 00:00:00

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