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Egypt arrests 6 Sudanese trying to cross into Israel, seek asylum
Haaretz ^ | 26/05/2006 | AP

Posted on 05/26/2006 3:33:30 PM PDT by Nachum

EL ARISH, Egypt - Egyptian police captured six Sudanese, including a one-year-old boy, who were trying to cross into Israel early Friday to seek asylum, a security official said.

The six were arrested at dawn as they tried to get over the coil of barbed wire that marks the border in Egypt's northeast Sinai desert, said Brig. Gen. Adel Fawzi, the chief of the North Sinai criminal investigation department.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Israel; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 6; arrests; asylum; cross; egypt; into; israel; seek; sudanese; to; trying
They almost made it.
1 posted on 05/26/2006 3:33:36 PM PDT by Nachum
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