Sinai: Police Casualities Expected

Battle for Sinai: the NYT is picking up on the information that troops now have returned to the mountain range where they clashed with suspected terrorists last week.

We are coming in from below, and they are in control from above. It is expected that we will lose some men because it is a war and there are arms being used.

Last week, troops where withdrawn last week after two generals were killed in an explosion said to be caused by a land-mine. It is the worst incident since the hunt for Islamist insurgents in the 1990's. Before the fatal explosion, authorities had announced that they had captured, killed or identified all those responsible for the Sharm El-Sheikh and Taaba attacks.

Extensive report - read all of it. Michael Slackman has provided the best international coverage of events unfolding in Egypt for several weeks now and deserves credit for his work.