A group of armed men shot dead a tribal leader and his son on Monday in Egypt's Sinai peninsula on the border with Israel, a security source said, as violence escalated on the sixth day of a military crackdown on Islamists in the area....
... The military crackdown in the Sinai peninsula is seen as an early test for Egyptian President Mohamed Morsy - a moderate Islamist elected in June- to prove he can rein in the militants whose activity near the border worries both Egyptians and Israel.
Morsy dismissed two top generals on Sunday, quashing a military order that had ruled the transition period after Mubarak and curbed Morsy's presidential powers. Last week, he fired North Sinai's governor and Egypt's intelligence chief.
Morsy's critics say the Islamist leader risks being seen as soft on jihadists because he is from the Muslim Brotherhood, a political movement that has ties to the Hamas government in Gaza.THINGS IN SINAI ARE GETTING HOTTER, NOT COOLER.
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