General Sir David Richards will lead team advising how to
ween Bedouin tribes in the Sinai Peninsula away from smuggling
The Guardian
"Britain is to provide military advice to the Egyptian government to help it crack down on militants in the Sinai Peninsula who are destabilising relations with neighbouring Israel.
In his first meeting with
the Egyptian president Mohammed Morsi in New York, David Cameron will
announce that Britain's most senior military figure will travel to Cairo.
General Sir David Richards, the chief of the defence staff, will lead a British
effort that will also see a stabilisation team despatched to Egypt. The team, which will
mainly consist of field experts from the Department for International
Development, will advise on how to ween Bedouin tribes in Sinai away from
smuggling......"
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