Sinai Explodes Into Violence After Years Of Chronic Poverty And Alienation -- The GuardianEgypt's Bedouin accused of looting resorts, bombing pipelines and abducting foreigners in post-Mubarak security vacuum.
Ahmed Abdo was still asleep in his hut at the gate of the Aqua-Sun beach resort on Egypt's Red Sea coast when 20 masked men carrying guns burst in.
Abdo, 30, and his two colleagues were tied up, their mobile phones taken. The intruders, members of the Bedouin Tarabeen tribe, demanded money – 4m Egyptian pounds (£420,000) – from the owner in compensation for the land on which the resort was built. It belonged, they said, to the Tarabeen.
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Update #1: No Arab Spring for Egypt's Bedouin -- Al Jazeera
Update #2: Egyptian authorities look the other way as Bedouin kidnap refugees -- The Guardian
Update #3: Is al-Qaeda Growing in Egypt? -- Bruce Riedel, The Atlantic
My Comment: I can now understand why Israel is determined to build a fence along the Sinai border.
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