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Egypt forces arrest gunman who fired at police patrol
[Ma'an] Egyptian police on Sunday enjuggedDon't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! a gunman who opened fire on a police patrol in the Sinai peninsula, Ma'an's news hound said. Two gunnies opened fire on a police patrol in the Sinai, leading to a shootout with Egyptian security forces. The gunnies then hid in a house before police managed to make an arrest. The other gunman managed to escape. Disorder has spread in Sinai since former President Hosni Mubarak ...The former President-for-Life of Egypt, dumped by popular demand in early 2011... was ousted in a popular uprising last year, with Islamist beturbanned goons stepping up attacks on security forces and the Israeli border. Egypt's President, Muhammad Mursi, has vowed to restore order. Egyptian forces began two months ago their biggest security crackdown in decades after beturbanned goons killed 16 border guards in the deadliest attack there since Egypt's 1973 war with Israel. But efforts to impose central authority in the lawless desert region are complicated by the indigenous Bedouin population's ingrained hostility to the government in Cairo. Posted by: trailing wife 2012-10-29 |
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