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with GlobalPost's Cairo correspondent  How does violence in the
Sinai Peninsula figure into the rest of Egypt's security crisis?
GlobalPost's correspondent explains.  Egypt sinai terror
extremism 3 questionsEnlarge A man rides a motorbike past a wall
destroyed by the Egyptian army the day before on the outskirts
of the Northern Sinai town of Sheik Zuweid, Sept. 10, 2013.
(Mohamed El-Shahed/AFP/Getty Images)  CAIRO, Egypt — The current
political crisis in Egypt isn't news to many. But often
overlooked is the central state's frayed relationship with the
Sinai Peninsula, where militancy has taken deep root and
Egyptian authorities are now waging what they call a "war on
terrorism."  Anxious about an Al Qaeda-backed insurgency in the
Sinai growing more active by the day, the Obama administration
will keep funding Egyptian army operations there, although the
US is suspending much of the rest of its military aid to Egypt.
But will Egypt's fresh war in