11.   Last summer I was lucky enough to go on a trip with the EEAA to the coast between Marsa Matruh and Salum on the Libyan border.

12.   Libyan border guards could not move the Palestinians off the road despite threats of opening fire, Egyptian police officials said.

13.   Neither Egyptian nor Libyan border guards tried to intervene to reopen the crossing, which is usually crowded with travelers and trucks passing in both directions.

14.   The balloon skimmed just south of the Libyan border Wednesday and also briefly entered Egyptian airspace.

15.   They spoke to reporters in the Egyptian town of Marsa Matrouh, near the Libyan border.

16.   He said his busdriver had to bribe Libyan border officials to cross the border into Egypt.

17.   Initial reports had said the meeting was to take place in the Libyan border town of Tubruq.

18.   A convoy of Kuwaitis and Qataris were stopped recently closed to the Siwa oasis on the Libyan border and expelled, a police source said.

19.   Abu Kharita employs several bedouin who comb the desert all the way to the Libyan border for remains from the war.

20.   Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak on Sunday announced plans to create a delta in the western desert near the Libyan border to bolster agriculture and help absorb population growth.