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Veterans condemn El-Alamein golf resort plan

The desert battlefield of El-Alamein, where Field Marshal Montgomery's Desert Rats famously defeated Rommel's Afrika Korps in the Second World War, is being developed into a golf resort by Egyptian businessmen.

British war veterans reacted angrily yesterday after hearing of the plans to turn the historic site into a complex including luxury villas.
Read entire article at Telegraph (UK)