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| Egypt Jihadists Say Attacked Pipeline to Retaliate against Jordan |
| 2015-01-20 |
| [AnNahar] Egyptian jihadists claimed Monday to have bombed a pipeline in the Sinai that carries gas to Jordan, saying it was targeted over Amman's role in the U.S.-led war on 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.... group. Ansar Beit al-Maqdis, Egypt's deadliest Lion of Islam group which has pledged allegiance to IS, tweeted unverified pictures of the claimed attack, without saying when it was carried out. Since the 2011 uprising that toppled president Hosni Mubarak ...The former President-for-Life of Egypt, dumped by popular demand in early 2011... , there have been 27 confirmed attacks on energy pipelines in the Sinai Peninsula, the most recent of which was on December 23. Jordan is among a number of Arab states that have joined the U.S.-led campaign of air strikes against IS, which captured swathes of Syria and Iraq where it has declared a caliphate. IS says it has captured one of the kingdom's pilots after his plane crashed in Syria in December. Energy-poor Jordan was heavily reliant on gas supplies from Egypt, until the flow was interrupted in the spate of bombings since 2011. The Amman government has made plans to buy gas from Israel, despite growing opposition at home from critics of Tel Aviv's policies towards the Paleostinians. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #1 Jihadist attacking pipelines as a form of political retaliation? Been going on for over six years here in the States, and the pipeline isn't even complete yet. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2015-01-20 01:17 |