Majority of terrorists in Sinai arrested: source
Sat, 03/08/2013 - 17:52 Al-Masry Al-Youm
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A rare calm hung over security forces deployed across North Sinai on
Saturday. Authorities have not witnessed a single attack in the last two
days there.

Since the overthrow of Islamist President Mohamed Morsy on 3 July, almost
daily attacks rocked the lawless peninsula, killing army troops, police
officers and civilians.

A security source meanwhile told Al-Masry Al-Youm the latest calm can be
attributed to the fact the "majority" of terrorist elements in the Sinai
have been arrested.

Those arrested, the source said, implicated other terrorist and criminal
elements in the region, including those responsible for attacks against the
army and police.

Palestinians, Syrians and Afghans, as well as Egyptians, were reportedly
arrested on charges of attacking security forces, and are being detained in
Cairo, the source claimed.

Edited translation from Al-Masry Al-Youm