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Sinai: Widening circles of threat
 [AlAhram] Dozens of Coptic families have fled North Sinai as jihadist attacks against Christians grow in number. Simultaneously, Ansar Beit al-Maqdis fired missiles across the border into Israel, prompting an Israeli response that killed several Ansar Beit al-Maqdis operatives in Egypt, and security forces launched a new sweep of Gabal al-Halal, a notorious murderous Moslem hideout.The developments raise questions not only about the capabilities of 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.... -affiliate Ansar Beit al-Maqdis, but the ways in which the war against the Islamic State (IS) in Syria and Iraq and the shrinking spheres of IS influence there are playing out in Sinai. Posted by: trailing wife 2017-03-06 |
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