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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.

Two more citizens tortured in Arish

Posted on By 3arabawy

Two citizens were tortured by the First Arish Police Station sheriff and his assistant last Thursday, Sinai Leftists website is reporting.

Muhammad Selim Abdel Meguid Sherif and Islam Muhammad Muhammad Ali were brutalized and sexually abused by the police officers, in a “torture orgy” which started on 1am Thursday 5 October, and lasted for hours till the Dawn Prayers, Sinai Leftists charged.

No more information is available for now regarding the reasons for the two citizens’ arrest, but the Sinai Leftists promised to come forward with the names of the torturers and more details about their cases soon.

UPDATE: Ali Zalat of Al-Masry Al-Youm wrote a frontpage report on the Arish torture cases. It turns out the two young men were standing in the street at midnight, talking, doing nothing, when a police van pulled over, and an officer rudely asked for their IDs. Muhammad presented the officer with his ID; Islam told him his is lost, but he had a receipt for the new ID back at his home, and begged him to allow him to walk home to bring the receipt and the copy of the police report about the loss of his ID card.

That wasn’t good enough. The officer leveled insults and all sorts of swearwords against the two young men, and ordered them to get into the police car.

Later in the police station, Muhammad’s mobile phone rang, and he did the unforgiven sin of answering it. That’s when the police officer went out of his office with an insecticide can, he sprayed both their faces and caused them temporary blindness, brought other soldiers and started a torture orgy, where the two citizens were stripped off their clothes, and whipped with leather belts, sticks, and then sexually abused before they were released by dawn.