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Armed Bedouin watchmen Fayez Eid (l) and Mohamed Ouda stand guard July 26, 2011 on the perimeter of a recently bombed natural gas pumping station, one of more than a dozen located just outside the North Sinai town of Areesh, Egypt (40 kilometers from the border with Israel.) Since the Egyptian revolution, a decline in the number of police across the Sinai has resulted in a boom in the smuggling business and a spate of bombings targeting the natural gas export pipeline to neighboring Israel..Slug: Sinai.Credit: Scott Nelson for the new York Times

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Armed Bedouin watchmen Fayez Eid (l) and Mohamed Ouda stand guard July 26, 2011 on the perimeter of a recently bombed natural gas pumping station, one of more than a dozen located just outside the North Sinai town of Areesh, Egypt (40 kilometers from the border with Israel.) Since the Egyptian revolution, a decline in the number of police across the Sinai has resulted in a boom in the smuggling business and a spate of bombings targeting the natural gas export pipeline to neighboring Israel..Slug: Sinai.Credit: Scott Nelson for the new York Times