Egyptian troops are returning to Sinai but
it's not Israelis they're after. It's Islamists.
Egyptian military forces have prohibited fishing off the coast
of northern Sinai in order to stop Palestinian terrorists from entering by sea,
according to Egyptian security officials quoted by the Palestinian Ma'an News
Agency on Sunday.
The army crackdown on the tunnels has led many to enter
Egypt on fishing boats at night, according to the report.
A boat carrying
10 Palestinians was recently intercepted by the Egyptian coast guard and four of
them belong to a jihadist group in Gaza, according to Egyptian
officials.
Ongoing terrorist attacks in Sinai continued on Sunday with
gunmen attacking security checkpoints in El- Arish by firing three Grad rockets,
killing and injuring a number of people according to a report by the Egyptian
State Information Service.
Meanwhile, Egyptian security forces arrested a
terrorist who attacked a checkpoint on Sunday using automatic weapons. Apache
helicopters helped locate and apprehend the terrorist, according to the Daily
News Egypt.
The Egyptian Army has not been able to get control over Sinai since Hosni Mubarak was deposed two and a half years ago. Apparently there's been a huge buildup of weaponry there while the Muslim Brotherhood was in power. Now the Army will have to pay a price if it wants to regain control. You can bet that they won't be too quick to let this happen again.
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