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Egypt’s president fires intelligence chief

August 8th, 2012

An Egyptian soldier carries the body of Tarek Mohammed, one of 16 Egyptian soldiers who were killed Sunday, Aug. 5, 2012, during an attack at a checkpoint along the Sinai border with Israel by Islamic militants with purported ties to Gaza, during the military funeral in Cairo, Egypt, Tuesday, Aug. 7, 2012. Mourners prayed for the dead at a mosque in an east Cairo suburb on Tuesday. The coffins, wrapped in Egypt's red-white-and-black flag, were later taken to a nearby square where a military ceremony is under way. Arabic on the coffin reads, "Marytr Tarek Mohammed." (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi fired his intelligence chief and the governor of Northern Sinai on Wednesday following the deadly weekend attack on troops by suspected militants in Sinai.

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