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Egypt foils suicide attempt against army outpost
[ARABNEWS] Egypt's military said Wednesday its troops foiled a suicide car kaboom targeting an army outpost on a highway between Cairo and the canal city of Suez.The Egyptian affiliate of Daesh group known as the "Sinai Province" claimed the attack on a Twitter account affiliated to the group. A jacket wallah driving an explosives-laden vehicle attempted to strike the outpost on a highway leading to Suez, the military front man said on his Facebook page. He said the explosives-laden vehicle was destroyed and its driver killed. The front man said the bomber tried to drive through a checkpoint and ignored warning shots, prompting soldiers to open fire, blowing up the vehicle. "There were no losses among troops, and preliminary inspection shows that about half a ton of TNT" was used, he added. Daesh has stepped up attacks targeting security forces since the army's ouster of President Muhammad Mursi in July 2013. Most of their attacks have been in the restive Sinai Peninsula, but deadly attacks have also been carried out in Cairo and other cities. On Saturday, a car kaboom struck the Italian Consulate in Cairo killing a passer-by and wounding nine others, in the first against a foreign mission since Mursi's ouster. That attack came days after a car kaboom in Cairo killed the country's top state prosecutor.
...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.... last November, claimed the attack on Twitter and said that it killed a number of military personnel early on Wednesday. The statement added that the attack was carried out by a jacket wallah identified as "Abu Degana."
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