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Egypt detains Israeli army officer in Sinai | ||
2013-01-02 | ||
CAIRO - Egyptian security forces have detained an Israeli army officer in the Taba region of the Sinai peninsula after he snuck through a border crossing and took photographs of security property and talked to drivers, security sources said. "The Israeli officer was arrested by national security forces on December 29," a national state security officer said.
State television earlier reported the arrested man was a former army officer named Andre Yacoub and had entered Egypt illegally. Security sources in Sinai said the 24-year-old, a resident of Tel Aviv, had been gathering information about Sinai from drivers in the area near the Taba border crossing between Egypt and Israel. The officer was taken to the Nuweiba area in Sinai, where he was being questioned, the sources said. Egypt is trying to reassert control over the Sinai which has suffered from lax security since the uprising that overthrew Hosni Mubarak in February 2011.
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Posted by:Steve White |