Egypt tightens Sinai security, assesses militant threat

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By Shadia Nasralla CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt has tightened control of crossings from the Sinai after an Islamist militant group based in the peninsula said it tried to kill the interior minister in Cairo last week, the state news agency reported on Monday. The group Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis claimed responsibility on Sunday for last Thursday's suicide bombing aimed at Interior Minister Mohamed Ibrahim. It promised more attacks in revenge for a crackdown on Egypt's Islamists, raising fears that militant violence in the Sinai could spread across the country. ...




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