'Sinai is our Vietnam': Horror stories Egyptian soldiers tell from the front line

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'Sinai is our Vietnam': Horror stories Egyptian soldiers tell from the front line
By MEE correspondent in Suez, Egypt

Eating fried-chicken sandwiches and smoking shisha tobacco inside a local cafe, Ahmed and Mohamed debate how to spend the coming hours before returning to base.

The two soldiers, on a weekend pass from their battalion, had just come back from a funeral for a friend who was killed when militants ambushed his battalion in northern Sinai.

    We saw the worst of what people can do to each other, and saw how conscripts are cheap lives

    - Moataz, former army medic in Sinai


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