18.02.2011                     14.Adar l, 5771

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Egyptian army deploys additional soldiers in Sinai

Forces join 800 current troops, will help guard natural gas pipeline to Israel against attack; Suez Canal workers demand better conditions.

The Egyptian army has deployed hundreds of additional soldiers to the northern Sinai Peninsula to guard a pipeline that carries natural gas to Israel, Egyptian security officials said Thursday.
An Israeli defense official said Jerusalem had agreed to the deployment, which followed a February 5 explosion at a gas terminal in the area that disrupted the flow of gas to Israel and Jordan. Security officials said a bomb had caused the blast at the el- Arish terminal, while Egypt’s natural gas company said it had been caused by a gas leak….