(Washington Post) Janine Zacharia - Egypt temporarily suspended its natural gas supply to Israel as a security precaution after an explosion at a terminal in the northern Sinai Peninsula, Israel radio said Saturday. Technicians had to shut off valves controlling the flow of natural gas into pipelines transporting gas to Israel, Syria and Jordan. Israeli radio said that the explosion damaged a pipeline to Jordan, not to Israel, but that the supply to Israel was cut off as a temporary precaution.
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