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Monday, October 11, 2004
Egypt said pushing to send troops into Sinai DMZ [Treaty ignored]

Egypt said pushing to send troops into Sinai DMZ [Treaty ignored]
By Haaretz Service 11 October 2004
www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/487225.html

[IMRA: Egypt can deploy an unlimited number of "police forces" armed with
assault rifles and protected by body armor in the buffer area. If Egypt
wanted to stop the flow of weapons in Gaza that would more than suffice.
Unfortunately, the Government of Israel has taken a consistent information
policy of declining to point this out.]

The British Daily Telegraph newspaper reported Monday that Egypt is pushing
to send troops into the demilitarized buffer zone along its Sinai border
with Israel, following last week's spate of deadly car bombings in Taba and
another resort on the peninsula.

It quoted unnamed senior Egyptian officials in Cairo as saying they wanted
to strengthen their armed presence in eastern Sinai. The Egyptian force is
limited in scope and armament by the 1979 U.S.-mediated Camp David peace
treaty.

"Buffer zones established in Sinai after Israel's withdrawal in the 1980s
were designed to prevent a surprise military assault on Israel," the report
noted.

However, it said, "officials claim that the lack of well-trained force now
hampers the fight against terrorism."

The Camp David treaty limits the Egypt deployment in Area C, the region
which includes bombing targets Taba and Ras al-Satan, to lightly armed
police. It may use only "light boats, lightly armed" to patrol the coast.

The bombings all took place within a buffer zone, which is monitored by
American troops of the Multinational Force and Observers peacekeeping force.

The newspaper quoted Osama El-Baz, a senior adviser to President Hosni
Mubarak, as saying: "Had we been able to have the army in Area C it would
have been easier for us to control entry to the area

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