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Israel Weighs Webcast at Old City Dig

[AP/Guardian-UK] Marshall Thompson - The Israel Antiquities Authority is considering broadcasting real-time, 24-hour video from a Jerusalem holy site in a bid to allay Muslim fears their shrine will be harmed by recently launched repair work, an authority spokeswoman said Thursday. Israel says it needs to replace a centuries-old earthen ramp leading to the Temple Mount, which was damaged heavily in a 2004 snowstorm. It has promised the work would cause no harm to Islamic shrines at the site, some 60 yards away. "The Antiquities Authority is looking into the possibility of installing Internet cameras...to show that we are working with full transparency, and to show that we aren't digging - not under the Temple Mount, not on the way to the Temple Mount, and far from the Temple Mount.''
2007-02-09 01:00:00
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