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Egyptian officer killed in clashes with Sinai jihadi group
2011-11-21
EL-ARISH, Egypt (Ma'an) -- An Egyptian officer was killed and another injured Monday as Egyptian security forces and a jihad boy Islamist group clashed in the Sinai city of El-Arish.

Security forces raided the home of a big shot in the "Jihadists and Takfiri
...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who must be killed...
movement in the Jisr al-Wadi neighborhood of El-Arish, a security source told Ma'an.
No need for Mahmoud the Weasel if they'd continued their former practice of openly spurning contact with their neighbors as not Muslim enough.
Militants opened fire on the security forces, who in turn fired back. One officer was killed and another injured in the exchange of gunfire.
Somebody give them the phone number of Rab Headquarters -- they aren't doing it right!
One jihad boy was jugged by police, while the leader managed to escape, a Ma'an correspondent said.
Nooooo! I realize they're Egyptian and it isn't their fault, but after that I really must lie down for a bit.
The man tossed in the clink by police was reportedly in possession of a handgun, grenades and electric detonators.

Egyptian security officials say the "Jihadists and Takfiris" movement follows Al-Qaeda intellectually and demands an end to any military or foreign presence in the Sinai peninsula.

Muhammad Eid Musleh Hamad, also known as Muhammad al-Teehi, was jugged last week by Egyptian security forces. He is accused of planning the deadly attacks in Israeli border city Eilat in August, as well as a number of attacks in the Egyptian peninsula, a Ma'an correspondent reported.

Saboteurs blew up the gas pipeline between Egypt, Israel and Jordan on Nov. 10 in the Northern Sinai using remote controlled bombs, forcing it to shut down, Egyptian security sources said.

Forces launched a security sweep in August to root out suspected Islamist gangs and, according to security sources at the time, captured four Islamist cut-throats as they prepared to blow up a pipeline in El-Arish.
Rooters adds:
One Egyptian policeman was killed and one injured during a raid on an armed Islamist group suspected of involvement in pipeline bombings that have disrupted gas supplies to Israel and Jordan, the state news agency reported Monday.

The pipeline in the desert peninsula of Sinai has been attacked seven times this year as authorities have struggled to maintain control, especially since security was disrupted by the overthrow of Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak
...The former President-for-Life of Egypt, dumped by popular demand in early 2011...
in February.

The policeman was rubbed out when his unit approached the hiding place of two members of the armed Islamist group Al-Takfir Wa Al-Hijra (Excommunication and Exodus), news agency MENA reported, citing security sources.

Police set to sit in solemn silence in a dull, dark dock, in a pestilential prison with a life-long lock an Egyptian of Paleostinian origin named Nour Mohamed who was accused of firing shots during the raid.
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