Tuesday, August 21, 2012

Washington calls for the Coordination of reinforcements in Sinai

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Washington calls for the Coordination of reinforcements in Sinai
Egyptian armored carriers in El-Arish in Sinai (French)
The United States called Tuesday to coordinate between Cairo and Tel Aviv on the Egyptian military buildup in the Sinai Peninsula, the enhancements of concern to Israel, according to an Israeli official.
The spokeswoman said the U.S. State said her country supports Egypt's efforts to defeat what they called terrorism in Sinai, in reference to the crackdown and the Egyptian military, which began on the eighth of this month in response to the attack by gunmen on a checkpoint in Egyptian Rafah on the border with Gaza, which killing 16 military.
As part of this campaign, which so far resulted in the killing and the arrest of a number of militants, the Egyptian army used attack helicopters for the first time since the signing of the Camp David peace that restrict the deployment of Egyptian military forces in Sinai, also published dozens of armored vehicles, including tanks.

The Egyptian security sources said a few days ago that there was a plan to deploy aircraft and tanks in the Sinai and for the first time since the October War / October 1973.
The U.S. Foreign Ministry spokeswoman said Washington has encouraged Egypt to ensure that not only security but also the security of its neighbors, and public security in the region.Netanyahu asked Cairo not to send reinforcements without coordination by Maariv (French)
Israeli concernAlmost simultaneously with the State's comments, said an Israeli official who declined to be named said Israel disturbed to enter the Egyptian Sinai armor without coordination.
He told Reuters that Israel wants to have an opinion on the weapons deployed by Egypt in the Sinai, which is considered a demilitarized buffer zone under the Camp David treaty.
And so far has not asked Israel from Egypt to withdraw officially heavy mechanisms of Sinai, but Israeli press reports said that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu urged Cairo a few days ago to withdraw those armor.
The Maariv newspaper said that Netanyahu sent to Egypt by the White House message "strongly worded" in this sense, and in which he requested not be published Cairo further military buildup in the Sinai without coordination.
The newspaper quoted an Israeli official as saying that the recent Egyptian reinforcements constitute a breach of the peace treaty.
Egyptian clarificationsIn Cairo, the Egyptian presidency yesterday denied that received no objection recent Israeli reinforcements in the Sinai, Mkzbh so, the Maariv newspaper reported on Netanyahu's message. The presidential spokesman said Yasser Ali of the island "that Israel did not reach Cairo yet been any official objection to the presence of heavy weapons in the Sinai."
He stressed that Egypt has the right to use all means to enforce security in the Sinai as part of the national security of the country.
For his part, the Egyptian military source said told Reuters that security in the Sinai campaign in line with the agreements reached with Israel since after the killing of eight Israelis in a cross-border raid.
Egyptian sources said Monday that the new defense minister General Abdul Fattah al-Sisi visited Sinai to finalize plans
for the deployment of more reinforcements and expand the scope of the military operation.Source: Agencies, the island

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