Egypt's Offensive Pits 'Mr. Security' Against the 'Sinai's Bin Laden'

The attack on Egyptian forces allows newly-elected president Morsi to rebrand himself as a daring national leader, but troubles at home are blowing down his neck.

Avi Issacharoff
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Quite a bit has been written and said about the how problematic the timing of the Sinai attack was for the new Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi. The attack on an Egyptian police station that killed 16 Egyptian soldiers forced the president to respond to a complex and complicated reality that has taken root in Sinai – and perhaps even to confront Hamas over the tunnels connecting Gaza and Egypt.

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