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A police station still lies in ruin July 26, 2011 in the North Sinai town of Rafah, Egypt, with graffiti scrawled across it's entrance renaming it the "Bedouin Security" station. 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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A police station still lies in ruin July 26, 2011 in the North Sinai town of Rafah, Egypt, with graffiti scrawled across it's entrance renaming it the "Bedouin Security" station. 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