Egypt officials reject demands by US hostage-taker

El Arish : Egypt | Jul 16, 2012 at 6:44 AM PDT

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Egypt Egyptian security officials say they will not give in to demands of a Bedouin man who took two Americans and their local translator hostage in the Sinai Peninsula...Michel Louis, an American woman and their Egyptian guide were taken off a bus on a road between Cairo and Mount Sinai on Friday while... FULL ARTICLE AT The Boston Globe

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