Attack in the Western Desert tops coverage of Egypt

Still topping coverage on Egypt in the foreign press is the attack which left at least16 policemen and conscripts dead. Some, including the National’s Jacob Wirtschafter, focus on how the sophistication of the attack has shocked both security forces and the nation at large. “The attack places the Ministry of Interior under greater scrutiny, because it appears to have been caught off-guard by the abilities of the” terrorists, said the International Crisis Group’s North Africa Project Director Issandr El Amrani.