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kanwisher on Feb 10, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Mubarak to step down tonight

There are military checkpoints like every few kilometers on the sinai peninsula. Quite disruptive to have to get questioned 30+ times in a 7 hour journey from Sharm El' Sheik to Cairo

nir on Feb 10, 2011 [–]

I know the military checkpoints - I spent some of my childhood there and still visit every few years. But these aren't "military bases turned beach resorts".

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