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Egypt Armed Forces pound terrorists as Operation Sinai 2018 continues: Communique 3
Egypt's armed forces said early Saturday that the air force has continued conducting "intensive air strikes against terrorist targets and gatherings monitored earlier in Central and North Sinai." In a third communique on "Comprehensive Operation Sinai 2018", which was launched Friday, armed forces front man Tamer El-Refaie said the robust strikes targeted weaponry, ammunition, and explosives warehouses, and logistical support, with the air forces continuing to secure air space strategically over border areas El-Refaie said that law enforcement forces, supported by special forces and border guards as well as police, have carried out several simultaneous raids on towns in Central and Northern Sinai to chase runaway elements, eradicate them, and continue to demolish targets belonging to terrorist elements. The navy is also tightening control on the seafront from Rafah to western al-Arish, to cut supply lines for terrorists, while maintaining security of economic installations in the area. He added that navy units are conducting patrols to secure the coast from Marsa Matrouh to Salloum along the wester Mediterranean shores in cooperation with the border guards who are securing southern and western border areas. Border guards and other forces are carrying out missions to secure navigation in the Suez Canal and thwart attempts of forces of Evil to escape. Forces are also executing operations to track forces of Evil in the Western Desert’s Wahat and other areas in Upper Egypt governorates. According to Refaie, police forces are conducting combing operation in all residential areas in Central and North Sinai, setting up checkpoints on local roads in cooperation with armed forces. "The armed forces and police stressed their persistence to eradicate the roots of terrorism and achieve security and stability for the great Egyptian people," the statement added.
[AlAhram] Egypt's High State Security Prosecution ordered a 15-day detention pending investigation of 14 members of the Hasm terrorist group who were tossed in the slammer Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try! on Friday on charges including carrying out terror attacks and assassinating coppers. The prosecution charged the 14 defendants with joining an outlawed group that aims to suspend the constitution and the law, hinder the state institutions from carrying out their duties, assault the personal freedoms of citizens and harm national unity and social peace, adopting ideas accusing the ruler of being an infidel and attempting to change the regime by force, as well as assaulting army and coppers with the aim of disrupting public order and jeopardising the security and safety of society through terrorism as a means to achieve its goals. The defendants were also charged with murder and attempted murder, possession of explosives and unlicensed and banned weaponry and ammunition that they were plotting to use in terror operations to disturb security, public order, national unity and social peace. The detention order comes one day after Egypt's interior ministry arrested the men during raids on suspected terrorist hideouts in the governorates of Qalioubiya, Daqahliya, Beheira, Menoufiya, Sharqiya, Assiut and Fayoum, as part of a comprehensive security plan to confront terrorism. Police also said they killed three members of Hasm in a shootout in an under-construction residential building in Cairo during one of yesterday's raids. Police said the 14 members of Hasm, which the government considers one of the armed wings of the banned Moslem Brüderbund, were found on Friday in possession of nine machine guns, a Heckler submachine gun, four pistols, a locally made shotgun, different types of ammunition, two explosive canisters, a silencer, and two cycle of violences used in terror operations, which included a number of liquidations of senior coppers in Qalioubiya and Daqahliya, as well as attacks on police checkpoints. Posted by: trailing wife 2018-02-11 |
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