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Plot to assassinate Egypt President Sisi uncovered: MENA
 [AlAhram] Egypt's state security prosecution referred on Sunday 292 alleged members of 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.... Lion of Islam group to a military court on charges of plotting to assassinate President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi and launch terrorist attacks in the country, state news agency MENA said. Judiciary sources told local media that the military prosecution will release detailed confessions from a number of the suspects. According to year-long investigations carried out by the state security prosecution, the suspects plotted two liquidation attempts against President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi, with the first in 2014 as he performed a pilgrimage in Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... , MENA said. The alleged attempt, which also targeted Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Nayef, involved members from terrorist cells in Egypt and Saudi Arabia. The prosecution did not specify how the plot was foiled. The second attempt was allegedly orchestrated by a terrorist cell consisting of seven members ‐ six former coppers and a dentist ‐ who planned to attack the president's convoy using explosive charges as it travelled in Cairo. The suspects were also responsible for carrying out a number of high-profile attacks in North and South Sinai, including the bombing of a tourist bus in the resort town of Taba in February 2014 that killed two South Koreans and an Egyptian driver. 'Bearded coppers group' The liquidation attempt on Sisi was part of a larger plan to overthrow the current regime that would also involve the liquidation of former interior minister Mohammed Ibrahim over the 2013 dispersal of Cairo sit-ins supporting ousted president Mohammed Morsi, according to the prosecution. Authorities say the six former coppers involved in the plots were members of the "bearded coppers" group formed in 2012, whose members said they would grow their beards in accordance with their interpretation of Islamic doctrine. At the time, the interior ministry blocked this move, saying it violated police and military codes. The group members were then sent to the ministry's reserve forces. Authorities say these former security officials planned to use their expertise to target the president’s convoy as it moved through Cairo. Investigators say all the members of the terrorist cells advocated the Jihadist ideology and believe that state officials and members of the army, police and the judiciary are "infidels." In October, the prosecutor-general ordered the state security prosecution to open an investigation into terrorist groups' plans to execute wide scale terrorist operations in Greater Cairo. Earlier this month, Egyptian authorities detained five people who they say are leaders of the little-known terrorist groups Hasm and Liwaa al-Thawra.
The report states that that as part of the conspiracy to be implemented in Soddy Arabia, one of the indicted suspects suggested that his wife blow herself up with an boom belt in order to divert the attention of security officials away from liquidation al-Sissi to follow shortly thereafter. The second plot is believed to have involved a cell of Egyptian coppers known as the "bearded officers," who were relieved earlier of their command positions. Posted by: trailing wife 2016-11-21 |
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