MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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Egypt unrest: Six soldiers shot dead in Cairo
By artappraiser on Sat, 03/15/2014 - 12:52pm |BBC News, 15 March, 2014
BBC's Orla Guerin: "This was a brazen attack during dawn prayer" (Video caption)
Six Egyptian soldiers have been killed by gunmen at a checkpoint in the northern Cairo suburb of Shubra al-Khayma, state media reports.
A security official said two bombs left behind by the attackers had been defused.
The violence comes two days after another soldier was shot dead in an attack on an army bus in eastern Cairo.
There has been an upsurge in violence since the overthrow of Islamist President Mohammed Morsi last July.
Islamist militants have killed hundreds of police and soldiers in numerous attacks [....]
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http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-26591463
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