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Unknown Group Claims Oct. 20th Egypt Police Ambush
[AnNahar] An unknown jihadist group has claimed a deadly October 20 ambush that killed at least 16 Egyptian coppers in a statement published Friday on Death Eater Islamist social media channels.

The statement purporting to be from a group called Ansar al-Islam -- or "Supporters of Islam" -- also said one of its leaders, Emad al-Din Abdel Hamid, was killed in Egyptian air strikes after the ambush.

The statement could not be independently verified.

No other group has grabbed credit for the attack on police last month that saw assailants gun down officers in a shootout between Cairo and the Bahariya oasis in the Western Desert, a rare flare-up outside Egypt's Sinai Peninsula.

The military said on October 31 and November 1 that it had tracked and killed all the attackers in desert raids and liberated a police officer taken hostage during the ambush.

Egyptian police have for years been seeking a Death Eater named Emad al-Din Abdel Hamid, a former military officer turned jihadist.

He is believed to have joined a fellow officer, Hisham el-Ashmawy, in Libya following the 2013 military ouster of Islamist president Mohammed Morsi.

Ashmawy, who split with an Egyptian jihadist group that claimed allegiance to 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 Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
 group in 2014, is thought to be aligned with al-Qaeda.

Egypt believes the bandidos faceless myrmidons have been plotting attacks from the jihadist stronghold of Derna in Libya.
I thought that lot were associated with ISIS in Libya and Ansar Bayt al Maqdis/ISIS in the Sinai in Egypt... but perhaps things are changing with the fall of the ISIS caliphate.
Since Egypt's army removed Morsi from power in 2013, bad boy groups have increased their attacks on the military and police.

Authorities are fighting against the Egyptian branch of the Islamic State group in the north of the Sinai peninsula, over 500 kilometres away from the scene of the October ambush.
Posted by: trailing wife 2017-11-05
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