Six gunmen killed as Egypt presses Sinai campaign

Cairo : Egypt | Aug 12, 2012 at 7:25 PM PDT

Source: The Daily Star

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Egyptian security forces killed six gunmen in a raid on a village of North Sinai Sunday, witnesses said, as the military pressed a campaign against Islamists in the lawless peninsula neighboring Gaza and Israel. Security officials said they found chemicals used to make explosives, rocket-propelled... FULL ARTICLE AT The Daily Star

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