First reports of many fatalities when scores of Salafi Bedouin linked to al Qaeda stormed the Multinational Force’s camp in northern Sinai with grenades, mortars and automatic guns Friday night Sept. 14.The 1,500 troops from the United States and other countries have been posted in Sinai to monitor the 1979 peace accords between Egypt and Israel. The gunmen first blocked the roads to the Al Ghora base southwest of El Aris before smashing through the guard post and mowing down the peacekeepers serving there.
This was the second al-Qaeda-instigated assault on a primarily US target in the Middle East in four days after the murder of four US diplomats including Ambassador Chris Stevens in Benghazi, Libya Tuesday.
More information is awaited…
WarSclerotic 
September 14, 2012 at 8:40 PM
Oh dear
September 14, 2012 at 9:14 PM
This is war. The problem is, the persons who are in charge don’t get it and no strategy is implemented, either. By the way, is an excellent time now to pay a visit to Iran. Its mountains are splendid in autumn.
September 14, 2012 at 10:34 PM
There is absolutely no leadership in the west and by the looks of things this is going to escalate.
September 14, 2012 at 10:57 PM
The Obama administration is still blaming the violence on the ‘movie’.
September 14, 2012 at 11:10 PM
I almost rioted when I seen how bad the acting was
September 15, 2012 at 3:54 AM
The naïveté of the West is stunning. The Mullahs in Iran have their heads full of Allah and Devine intervention. They see the West as crumbling, and the Arab awakening as signs of Allah’s Devine intervention toward the ultimate goal of the global Caliphate. The words and deeds of men are less than meaningless to them.
Those waiting and hoping Iran will come around because of sanctions are fools and Chamberlin’s progeny. Appeasement is always the cowards way out, hoping and wringing of hands praying that maybe just maybe evil will change its stripes. It never does! The West waited and waited hoping Hitler would be sated. He never was, he wanted it all. He saw the West as worms for their reticence.
Tens of millions died in WWII because Hitler was not dealt with sooner. The evil that were the Nazis has resurrected itself in the form of Radical Islam. Radical Islam is just as virulent an evil as were the Nazi. They also want it all, and this time if not stopped will have atomics! How many will die this go around due to reticence and a failure of leadership.