(BBC News) Armed Bedouin in Egypt's Sinai peninsula have lifted their 8-day siege of a base used by foreign peacekeepers in the Multinational Force and Observers (MFO) which monitors the 1979 Israel-Egypt peace accord. Officials have been given a month to release several jailed tribesmen, some of them convicted of terrorism. The Bedouin had no complaints against the MFO but believed that by targeting their base they would bring a more rapid response from Cairo authorities to their demands.
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