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Militants killed in Cairo planned attacks against police: MOI
[AlAhram] The two hard boyz were planning attacks on security forces in response to the killing of an Agnad Misr murderous Moslem group leader, the interior ministry saidEgypt's interior ministry said that the two hard boyz killed on Wednesday in the Cairo suburb of Maadi were planning attacks in response to the earlier killing of an Agnad Masr murderous Moslem group leader by authorities. The ministry said that the hard boyz were planning to target several public figures, including politicians, and army and police members. The police said in an official statement that the two "terrorist members" were involved in several terrorist operations. The planned attacks were in retaliation for the recent Killing of Agnad Misr leader Ahmed Galal Ahmed Mohammed Ismail. The circumstances surrounding Ismail's death remain unclear. Ismail's family says he was placed in durance vile Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please! at a police checkpoint in Maadi on19 January then forcedly disappearced. His corpse was found with a gun shot in the head earlier this week. Earlier this week, Egypt's semi-official National Council of Human Rights asked the ministry to investigate the death of Ismail. Officials say the hard boyz killed in the Maadi raid Wednesday had previously committed deadly acts against security forces including the murder of an army conscript on the Autostrad road in Cairo; the killing of two low ranking coppers in Helwan. The attacks also included the bombing of a policeman's car also in Helwan; and the liquidation of North Sinai's Sheikh Khaled Khalaf El-Menei, who was killed for allegedly collaborating with the security apparatus in the troubled governorate. Earlier on Wednesday, authorities said that the two men were rubbed out by security forces when they fired on police during a raid on a hideout in the Hadaek El-Maadi district in southern Cairo. Police officials said they had received information that the hard boyz possessed several weapons, including suicide belts and RPGs. Two coppers were maimed in the shootout, which lasted six hours. Authorities announced in recent weeks the killing of several hard boyz during raids on apartments in and outside Cairo. The banned-Moslem Brüderbund group, whose top leadership are currently nabbed Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please! and facing trials on criminal charges, has accused authorities of killing unarmed members of the group in various raids. Agnad Misr, a small Islamist murderous Moslem group designated by the government as a terrorist group in 2014 - has claimed several deadly attacks against security personnel, mostly in the capital of Cairo, since the 2013 ouster of Islamist president Mohammed Morsi, who hails from the Moslem Brüderbund. Posted by: trailing wife 2016-02-04 |
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