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The pro-Morsi crowds cover a wide spectrum of Islamist opinion, from relatively liberal teens in skinny jeans and T-shirts to Salafists with chest-length beards waving the black banner of radical Islam and providing alarming sound-bites to a no-doubt gleeful television crew, declaring their willingness to launch suicide attacks and “burn the Christians”.
On to Sinai—a wild, long-neglected and barely governed peninsula on the eastern border where the only stable source of income is the smuggling of weapons to Gaza and African immigrants to Israel by the local Bedu tribes. The government has only recently quashed a jihadist insurgency in the area with attack helicopters and lavish spending on development.
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