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50 Attacks on Sinai Police Since Egypt Uprising
(Al-Masry Al-Youm-Egypt) Yousry el Badry and Ahmed Abu Draa - Sinai police have been attacked about 50 times by armed Palestinian jihadi groups and a local branch of al-Qaeda since the 25 January uprising, according to security sources. Areas such as Sheikh Zuwayed, central Sinai, and Rafah were now outside the control of Egyptian security forces. The Palestinian militant groups Jaljalat, Army of Islam, Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades, as well as Al-Qaeda in the Sinai Peninsula, were named as being behind the attacks.