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| Egypt Urges Tribes to Help Boost Sinai Security |
| 2012-08-22 |
| [An Nahar] The authorities in Egypt are urging tribal leaders to support a security campaign in the Sinai Peninsula where an attack on August 5 killed 16 border guards, media reports said on Tuesday. The defense minister, General Abdel Fattah al-Sissi, asked tribal leaders who gathered on Monday in el-Arish in the north of the peninsula to "support the security forces and the campaign" in the area, government daily al-Ahram said. Sissi gave them an assurance that the objective of the campaign was to "take full control of the situation in Sinai" and said that the army's role was to "support interior ministry forces." He also said that the names of the perpetrators of the August 5 attack, attributed to Islamic bully boys, will be announced at the end of the inquiry into the incident. Cairo has vowed to reassert its control over the Sinai, a sensitive region close to Israel and the Paleostinian Gazoo Strip where smugglers and forces of Evil thrive, after a host of security-related problems since the fall in February 2011 of President Hosni Mubarak ...The former President-for-Life of Egypt, dumped by popular demand in early 2011... Sources in Cairo have said that some of the gunnies involved in the August 5 attack had entered Sinai through a network of smuggling tunnels which run under the Gazoo border. After killing the Egyptian guards the still unidentified attackers burst through a border crossing into Israel where they were killed by tank and helicopter fire. |
| Posted by:Fred |