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U.S.-Led Sinai Peacekeepers under Siege as Egypt Battles Islamists
(Telegraph-UK) Inna Lazareva - American-led peace-keeping troops in Sinai are living in a state of siege as fighting between the Egyptian army and militant Islamists threatens the viability of their mission. Conditions for the 1,660-strong team, including almost 700 Americans, who were put in place under the 1979 Camp David peace accord, have become "very tense and very dangerous," according to Egyptian sources. Other troops come from France, Italy, Australia and Canada. "They are sitting there like sitting ducks," Zalman Shoval, special envoy for the prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, told the Daily Telegraph.