What the heck's going on in Sinai

CB27 · 930818. Tue Aug 07, 2012 9:48 pm

Various check points stormed, helicopter gunships firing missiles, it's scary for me because I'd been to Arish a few times when I was a kid. I know things have changed over the past few decades, but for it to be part of a battle with militants seems so far from how I remember it.

'yorz · 930825. Tue Aug 07, 2012 11:39 pm

Apparently, it was Egyptian attack helicopters, who "fired missiles on suspected Islamic militants in Sinai after attacks on security checkpoints, according to residents and officials. An army source said 20 "terrorists" had been killed in the assault."
Ha'aretz