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| Egypt army 'moves reinforcements to Sinai' |
| 2012-09-22 |
| [Ma'an] The Egyptian army sent military reinforcements to the Sinai on Thursday, security sources said, after authorities raised the alert level in the wake of the killing of a hard boy leader. Around 50 tanks and armored vehicles were deployed to the eastern bank of the Suez canal for regular training, and to the northern Sinai city El-Arish for anti-terror operations, security sources said. On Wednesday, Egyptian intelligence warned that "unprecedented attacks" were planned by jihadist groups against security headquarters in north Sinai over the next 48 hours, a security officer told Ma'an. The military leader of a Jihad group was rubbed out in Sinai on Tuesday, security officials said, raising fears of an escalation of violence in the peninsula. Security officers told Ma'an that Suleiman Ihmeidan was killed by Bedouins from his own clan as Dire Revenge™ for the killing of a sheikh earlier this year. |
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