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Egypt Deploys Soldiers to North Sinai

(New York Times) David D. Kirkpatrick and Heba Afify - Egyptian soldiers sent to crack down on lawlessness in Sinai killed a man in a gunfight on Monday and captured a dozen others in a series of early morning raids, security officials said. In the six months since the Egyptian revolution, the Egyptian police have all but vanished from the region, leaving local Bedouin tribes to provide the only law and order. Egyptian security officials said some of those arrested were prison inmates who escaped during the revolution. Other escaped inmates are believed to have slipped into Gaza through smugglers' tunnels.

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