{"id":11611,"date":"2012-08-09T06:18:31","date_gmt":"2012-08-09T13:18:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=11611"},"modified":"2012-08-09T06:18:31","modified_gmt":"2012-08-09T13:18:31","slug":"egypt-military-signs-up-to-do-israels-drity-work-in-sinai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=11611","title":{"rendered":"Egypt Military signs-up to do Israel’s ‘drity work’ in Sinai"},"content":{"rendered":"

Clashes continue in Egypt’s Sinai<\/strong>
\n9 August, 2012 – Al Akhbar <\/p>\n

Egyptian police and gunmen traded fire in the Sinai town of El-Arish on Thursday as security forces pressed an unprecedented campaign to quell Islamist militants, state television reported.<\/p>\n

The state-owned Nile News television reported that the clashes were taking place outside a police station in the north Sinai town, a day after reported airstrikes killed 20 militants in a neighboring village.<\/p>\n

The fighting comes a day after the Egyptian army declared success in the campaign against militants in Sinai.<\/p>\n

“Elements from the armed forces and interior ministry supported by the air force began a plan to restore security by pursuing and targeting armed terrorist elements in Sinai, and it has accomplished this task with complete success,” the military said in a statement on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

The statement also added that the military would continue its campaign, without elaborating.<\/p>\n

The clashes come after a militant attack on Sunday killed 16 Egyptian soldiers in an attempt to infiltrate Israel.<\/p>\n

The soldiers were killed when the militants raided a border guard base under the cover of mortar fire, and commandeered a military vehicle into Israel before they were stopped by an Israeli helicopter strike.<\/p>\n

Israel stepped up pressure on Egypt’s government to get a grip on lawlessness near the border, despite Egypt requiring Israeli permission to send forces to the Sinai region.<\/p>\n

A 1979 peace treaty between the two states prohibits Egypt from deploying a large military presence in the Sinai, restricting Cairo’s ability to deal with rogue militants.<\/p>\n

Israel granted Egypt permission following Sunday’s attack to deploy larger forces in the region to strike the militants.<\/p>\n

But the Sinai attacks prompted Egypt’s powerful Muslim Brotherhood to call for a review of the treaty with Israel to allow Egypt to deploy forces in the region at its will.<\/p>\n

The Brotherhood blamed Israel’s Mossad for the attack, a charge denied by the Jewish state. …more<\/a><\/p>\n

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Clashes continue in Egypt’s Sinai 9 August, 2012 – Al Akhbar Egyptian police and gunmen traded fire in the Sinai town of El-Arish on Thursday as security forces pressed an unprecedented campaign to quell Islamist militants, state television reported. The state-owned Nile News television reported that the clashes were taking place outside a police station more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[247],"tags":[3335],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11611"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11611"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11612,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11611\/revisions\/11612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}