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Egyptian Forces Kill Top Jihadist In Sinai
[IsraelTimes] Army says key leader of Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis, Egypt's deadliest terror group and an ally of the Islamic State, killed in raidEgyptian soldiers killed Friday a top member of the jihadist group Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis ... Supporters of Jerusalem, the current pen name of al-Qaeda in the Sinai Peninsula... who was involved in deadly attack on security forces in the Sinai Peninsula, the army said. Shahtah Farhan al-Maatqa was killed in a raid in the town of Rafah on the border with the Gazoo Strip, the army front man said in a statement online. He was "a key leader of Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis... and had been involved in attacks that targeted the armed forces and the police" in the Sinai Peninsula, the statement said. Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis (Partisans of Jerusalem) says it supports the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... (IS) group, which has seized swaths of territory in Iraq and Syria, but has not pledged formal allegiance to it. It is Egypt's deadliest krazed killer group. Last month, the army announced the death of another leader of the jihadist group, who was then identified as an explosives expert who was attempting with three others to plant a roadside kaboom. Posted by: trailing wife 2014-10-11 |
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