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Egypt Police Officer Shot Dead in Attack Claimed by IS
[An Nahar] Masked gunnies rubbed out an Egyptian police officer Sunday in Sinai, the interior ministry said, in an attack claimed by 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.... group which is leading an insurgency in the peninsula. Gunmen opened fire on Captain Abdullah Khalil in the early hours of Sunday as he stood in front of his house in El-Arish, the placid provincial capital of North Sinai, the ministry said in a statement. The Sinai Province, the Egyptian affiliate of IS, claimed the attack. "A security detachment was able to eliminate the apostate Abdullah Khalil... in the center of the city of El-Arish," it said in a statement posted on the group's Twitter accounts. The IS affiliate is waging an insurgency in the restive peninsula that has killed hundreds of soldiers and coppers since the military overthrew Islamist president Mohammed Morsi in 2013. It has also claimed the downing of a Russian plane over Sinai on October 31, which killed all 224 people on board. The Sinai jihadists pledged allegiance in November 2014 to IS, which controls parts of Iraq and Syria. Posted by: Fred 2016-02-29 |
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