Militants | Known to intelligent people outside the MSM as 'terrorists' ... |
Masked men gunned down the retired colonel on a highway between the capital and the Suez Canal city of Ismailiya, the officials said. Hours before, gunmen shot dead a soldier in an ambush on a military bus in northern Sinai, the nerve centre of the militant campaign.
Police and soldiers have been battling a burgeoning insurgency that the government says has killed more than 400 people since the army toppled president Mohamed Mursi in July. The vast majority of those killed were soldiers and policemen, mostly in the Sinai peninsula.
The interior minister, meanwhile, announced that police had arrested the leaders of a deadly