Wednesday, December 26, 2007

Because the Pharaoh Has No Balls (or Teeth): Egypt asks for national troop deployment in Sinai, Israel refuses


"The Israeli delegation officials that are visiting Egypt said that they will refuse the demands made by Egypt to deploy 2000 of its troops in the Sinai Peninsula.

The Israeli delegation is headed by the Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak, the visit started on Wednesday. Egypt had asked Israel to agree on the deployment of the 2000 troops to assist the already existing Egyptian troops in the Sinai Peninsula between Israel and Egypt. Egyptian officials said that the deployment was to help prevent the smuggling of weapons through Sinai into the Gaza strip......"

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