Egyptian military reinforcements arrived Thursday (August 9th) near the Sinai border city of al-Arish in the biggest military deployment in the peninsula since 1979, Ahram Online reported.
The newspaper said the decision comes after the military reported that it killed 20 militants on Wednesday in response to the deaths of 16 border guards on Sunday in Rafah.
The deployment is part of "Operation Eagle", an operation in which Egypt deployed 2,500 troops and 250 armoured personnel carriers in Sinai in August 2011 in an aim to secure vital establishments in the region.
Al-Arabiya reported that clashes resumed in al-Arish between armed men and police forces, citing a Nile News television correspondent.
Meanwhile, in Cairo, Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi appointed Mohammed Rafaat Abdel Wahad Shehata as interim head of Egypt's General Intelligence Service after sacking on Wednesday its former head Murad Muwafi, AFP reported.
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ياسر عرفات
2012-8-10
Because this will increase the number the deployed armed forces, which was reduced by the Camp David Accords and it will also increase the military force of the Egyptian people. Additionally, it will leash the Camp David Accords, initially shaped to the benefit of Israel.
احمد مدرب كمال اجسام في السعودية
2012-8-10
God protect Egypt!
زكري توفيق
2012-8-10
Security is one of the most important things for which Islam came so that people could save themselves, their money, their children, their homes and their wives. So the great purpose of the Islamic religion is to impose and spread security among all the people, which is a very tolerant purpose. So this purpose cannot be marred by some extremists in the Arab countries, who are put there by the states that are hostile to the Islamic religion to kill the young Muslims and distort the picture of the Islamic religion and make it appear as a religion of terrorism before the world and its people, although the Islamic religion is the most hostile religion to terrorism and extremism. If any sane person thinks and asks himself who the terrorists are, he will realize who they are if he only see the number of Muslims who are being killed daily in Burma and Palestine, who are killed by the enemies of Islam; we recognize who the real terrorists are. We find that thousands of Muslims are being killed daily and no one is defending them. We know the facts about terrorism and who its main exporter is. Hence we have clarified the distinct things related to the dangers of the terrorism, which can be very easily solved through the spread of the religious sermons to the people, which the clergy are doing in various ways, whether through the religious sermons or the religious lessons or the religious television programs.