Egypt vows crackdown on 'infidel' after border killings
By Agencies in Cairo | China Daily | Updated: 2012-08-07 07:45
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Palestinian Hamas security officers patrol an area in the southern border town of Rafah on Monday. Five gunmen who shot dead 16 Egyptian guards near the border with Israel before crossing into the Jewish state in an armored vehicle have been killed, according to an Israeli army spokesman. Said Khatib / Agence France-Presse |
Egypt branded Islamist gunmen who killed 16 police near the Israeli border as "infidel" and promised on Monday to launch a crackdown following the massacre that strained Cairo's ties with both Israel and Palestinians.
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