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June 15th, 2013 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda The attack on Saturday was the latest in a series of assaults targeting police and army personnel in the vast desert region.
“The assailants used machine guns in attacking the checkpoint manned by police and army soldiers in the area of Wadi Feran in southern Sinai,” an Egyptian security official said.
Egyptian soldiers and security personnel returned the fire and forced the assailants to flee, added the official.
There was no immediate word on casualties. No group has claimed responsibility for the attack, but police officials put the blame on militants or Bedouin groups that have carried out similar assaults in the past.
The attack also came days after a violent militant attack left a police officer dead in the city of el-Arish in northern Sinai.
The peninsula has been hit by security problems since an uprising deposed president Hosni Mubarak more than two years ago.
In August 2012, 15 Egyptian policemen were killed in an attack against a police station at the border between Egypt and Israel. It was the deadliest incident in Egypt’s Sinai in decades.
In response, Cairo launched an offensive against terrorists in Sinai, sending thousands of troops backed by tanks and heavy equipment into the region.
Militant groups and criminals have exploited a security vacuum that developed in the Sinai since the 2011 uprising against former dictator Hosni Mubarak.
Occasionally, tribal Bedouins in the increasingly lawless peninsula would briefly kidnap foreigners to use them as bargaining chips with authorities, urging them to release imprisoned relatives.
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