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Journalists, detainees’ wives demonstrate in Cairo

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Dozens of wives of Islamist detainees demonstrated today in front of the Lawyers’ Syndicate, Downtown Cairo, to protest their husbands continuous detention by the Interior Ministry. Some of them have been in jails without trial since the 1980s.

Meanwhile, a handful of Muslim Brothers journalists demonstrated in front of the Press Syndicate, protesting the closure of the group-affiliated paper, Afaq Arabiya, seven months ago by the government. The journalists posed as vegetable sellers, to symbolize their financial difficulties. “We are left with nothing but selling vegetables ya hokouma,” they were shouting.

Egypt border guard shot dead along Israel border

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From Reuters…

Egypt border guard shot dead along Israel border
14 Oct 2006
ISMAILIA, Egypt, Oct 14 (Reuters) – An Egyptian border guard was shot dead on Saturday in the Sinai peninsula while on patrol along the Israeli border and another critically wounded, security sources said.
Several Egyptian security sources at the border said preliminary investigations showed the two guards may have had a dispute with a third border guard, who then shot them.
But other Egyptian security sources said it was too early to draw any conclusions and an investigation would focus on all possibilities, including that the fire may have come from Israel. Those sources said the investigation into the shooting near el-Kuntilla, 55 km (35 miles) northwest of the border town of Taba, would also look into the possibility that the border guards were shot in a shootout with smugglers, or in a dispute with another guard. The Sinai peninsula has been the scene of a string of three deadly bomb attacks targeting popular Red Sea beach resorts over the past two years that have killed scores of people.
Egypt has laid the blame for the Sinai bombings on local militants including Bedouin with militant Islamist views.
Smuggling is also common along the Egypt-Israel border.