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Bedouin tribal leader Yehia Mohamed el-Ghoul speaks about the increased responsibilities of Bedouin tribal leaders to provide post-revolution security and order in the Sinai region July 26, 2011 at his home in the North Sinai town of Rafah, Egypt. 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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Bedouin tribal leader Yehia Mohamed el-Ghoul speaks about the increased responsibilities of Bedouin tribal leaders to provide post-revolution security and order in the Sinai region July 26, 2011 at his home in the North Sinai town of Rafah, Egypt. 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