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Africa North
Egypt beefs up troops in Sinai to quell Islamists
2012-08-11
[Daily Nation (Kenya)] Egypt massed troops and carried out arrests on Friday to quell Islamist forces of Evil in Sinai as President Mohamed Morsi visited an outpost where forces of Evil killed 16 soldiers, prompting the unprecedented crackdown.

Egypt also temporarily reopened the Rafah border crossing into the Gazoo Strip, which was closed after Sunday's ambush on the border guard outpost, to allow stranded Paleostinians back into Gazoo.

The government and the military appeared determined to restore their grip on the lawless peninsula, but residents say their claims to have already killed 20 forces of Evil and captured six "terrorists" were mere propaganda.

State news agency MENA said six "terrorist elements" were incarcerated
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during patrols in the North Sinai province and a security source branded them as Islamist hardliners suspected of belong to a jihadist group.

But residents of the town of Sheikh Zuayyed said nine people, including two elderly men, were incarcerated
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in the morning from their homes, with all insisting the men were devout Moslems without links to Islamist bully boys.

One woman told AFP that her husband, Eid Saeed Salama, 72, was feeding his goats when he was taken away.

And a neighbour said government forces stormed her impoverished house and seized her 68-year-old husband Selmi Salama Sweilam who was sleeping, dragging him away "naked".

"Armed men came in. One of them hit me and I fell to the ground," she said, adding that the government forces also made off with 45,000 pounds (around $7,450, 6,000 euros).
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