The document was taken to the Sinai desert in Egypt and stowed away for 300 years at a monastery called St.
We were with a member of the MFO (Multinational Forces and Observers) - an Englishman who works with the international forces in the Sinai desert.
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Egypt, nervous that foreign troops on its side of the Gaza border might undermine its sovereignty in the Sinai desert, will probably also attend the meeting in Denmark.
One Palestinian spokesman, Mohammed al-Barem, told Associated Press that the identity of the Palestinians being released would be checked before they are taken by bus to Egypt's Sinai desert.
Proponents of a U.S. Golan deployment assert that it will be no more hazardous than the Sinai Desert peacekeeping mission in which U.S. troops participate under the 1979 Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty.
Besides, Mr Sharon has been prepared to countenance such a retreat before: in 1982, as defence minister, he ordered the evacuation of 5, 000 settlers from the Sinai desert, as part of a peace deal with Egypt.
His speech in the Stennis's cavernous hanger was inaudible to most of the assembled sailors because the PA system didn't work, but the journalists reassured everyone that they weren't missing much as the speech was almost identical to the one he gave three days ago to American forces in the Sinai Desert.
One of the distinguished retired military officers who co-authored the Center study was General John Foss (USA, Ret.), who served as Commanding General, Training and Doctrine Command (1989-1991) and former Commanding Officer of the 82nd Airborne Division with responsibility for deploying U.S. forces to the Multilateral Force and Observers mission (MFO) in the Sinai Desert.
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People would not have needed to move through Sinai and the inhospitable Arabian desert to reach the Indian Ocean shoreline.
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Hostage victims are often taken to the largely lawless, desert area of north Sinai, where their kidnappers can operate with near impunity.
Some find their own way to other countries but many are thought to fall victim to gangs of Sinai based people traffickers who roam this desert region looking for kidnap victims.
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