Originally posted by Breacher:
We have been sending troops there for a while.
Yeah, we have, about 1,600 or so of them, as part of a multinational peacekeeping force. And according to a news report I saw a couple of days ago, Obama is considering replacing the regular Army troops there with National Guard troops, which tends to make me doubt the story. And according to an
English-language Egyptian newspaper , Egypt is denying they agreed to more U.S. troops in the Sinai as part of the ceasefire agreement, which tends to make me doubt the story even more.
The armed forces have denied that Egypt agreed to allow the deployment of United States troops in the Sinai peninsula as part of the Egyptian brokered Gaza ceasefire agreement.
The official spokesperson for the armed forces released a statement which stated “there is no truth to what has been published on Israeli websites on plans for the deployment of US troops in the Sinai as part of the ceasefire agreement in Gaza between Hamas and Israel.” (...)
Onward and upward,
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