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| Natural gas pipeline in Sinai targeted by gunmen |
| 2014-12-24 |
| [IsraelTimes] Gunmen blew up and set fire to a natural gas line in the Sinai peninsula early Tuesday, the latest of a series of dozens attacks targeting the key line in recent years. No group has so far grabbed credit for the attack, near the town of el-Arish, in the northern Sinai. Egyptian security officials said all roads leading to the area had been closed after the kaboom, which took place early Tuesday morning. The official Egyptian news agency MENA said the national gas company had stopped the flow of the gas. Since the ouster of former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak ...The former President-for-Life of Egypt, dumped by popular demand in early 2011... in 2011 the pipeline has been attacked over two dozen times by jihadists, causing interruptions in the delivery of natural gas to Israel and Jordan. The situation has prompted Jordan and Israel to search elsewhere for natural gas supplies. In many of the past attacks, Ansar Bayt al Maqdis, a jihadi terror group reportedly aligned with 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.... , grabbed credit for attacks and often cited them as Dire Revenge for perceived wrongs by the regime in Cairo against its members or affiliates. The previous attack on the el-Arish pipeline took place mid-October, around the same time as an kaboom in Cairo which left 12 people dead and only hours after an Egyptian court sentenced seven convicted hard boyz to death ? all but one in absentia ? over the killing of 25 soldiers last year. Egypt has been fighting hard boyz in the Sinai Peninsula for much of the past year since former president Mohammed Morsi was toppled in a military coup in July 2013. The violence has spread to Cairo in a series of suicide kabooms, liquidations and attacks in the capital. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #6 Three days after Egypt opened the border crossing, there'd be an uptick in attacks in Sinai... |
| Posted by: Pappy 2014-12-24 22:59 |
| #5 Well done, g(r)omgoru! What was he right about? |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2014-12-24 20:43 |
| #4 We endeavor to please. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2014-12-24 12:24 |
| #3 So g(r)om was right. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2014-12-24 10:52 |
| #2 Tuesday was day 3, Shipman. So something like that. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2014-12-24 10:39 |
| #1 Wasn't the border crossing opened 40 hours ago? |
| Posted by: Shipman 2014-12-24 06:44 |