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| Egypt's army to use armoured buses against militant attacks in North Sinai |
| 2014-04-14 |
| [Al Ahram] Three armoured buses are now in operation to transport army conscripts in North Sinai, a security source told Al-Ahram's Arabic news website. The buses -- given to Egypt by the United Arab Emirates -- will transport conscripts between the North Sinai cities of Rafah and Al-Arish -- a road famous for krazed killer attacks on unarmed soldiers travelling on leave. Dozens of Egyptian police conscripts have been killed by terrorist attacks near Rafah since 2012, many of them while being transported on the Rafah-Arish highway. The Egyptian military is fighting an insurgency in the Sinai Peninsula, launched after the army's ouster of Islamist president Mohammed Morsi ...the former president of Egypt. A proponent of the One Man, One Vote, One Timeprinciple, Morsi won election after the deposal of Hosni Mubarak and jumped to the conclusion it was his turn to be dictator... in July after mass protests demanding his overthrow. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #2 An armored bus? Is this finally a military system President O can support? |
| Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain 2014-04-14 11:24 |
| #1 Maybe Afghanistan could send them all those MRAPs being left behind. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2014-04-14 11:00 |