Tuesday, August 7, 2012

Egypt Is Facing A Security Crisis In The Sinai

A woman shouts slogans against Egypt's President Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood during a funeral for soldiers killed during an attack in Sinai, in Cairo, August 7, 2012. Photo by Reuters

With 16 Egyptian Soldiers Murdered, Sinai Is Front And Center For President Morsi -- Christian Science Monitor

The murder of 16 Egyptian soldiers in the Sinai peninsula highlights long-simmering problems there. And now it's up to Mohamed Morsi and Egypt's politically powerful military to deal with it.

The murders of 16 Egyptian border guards on Sunday by militants, who then sought to use stolen armored cars to storm the Israeli side of the border, has been commonly framed as evidence of the "deteriorating" security situation in the Sinai Peninsula, and evidence that the country's new president, Mohamed Morsi, must come to grips with a "new" crisis since the fall of Hosni Mubarak.

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More News On Egypt's Security Crisis In The Sinai

Egypt Buries Soldiers Slain in Border Attack -- ABC News/AP
Egypt: Thousands Mourn Rafah Attack Victims, Mursi Absent -- allAfrica.com
Egypt hunts down militants as slain soldiers buried -- AFP
In wake of Sinai attack, Egypt moves to seal Gaza tunnels -- Haaretz
Egypt moves to seal Gaza tunnels after border attack -- Reuters
Gaza panics as Sinai bloodshed severs tunnel trade -- AFP
Sinai violence strains Hamas-Cairo ties -- Financial Times
In the battle to restore order in Sinai, Hamas holds the key -- Haaretz
Sinai Attack Tests New Egyptian President’s Relationship With Israel -- New York Times

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