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| Egypt foiled extremist 'state' in Sinai, president says |
| 2015-07-06 |
| [ARABNEWS] President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, wearing battle dress for the first time in over a year, said Saturday that Egypt had foiled an attempt by the Daesh (Arabic acronym for 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 to seize territory and set up an bully boy state with its recent assault on the military in the troubled northeastern part of the Sinai Peninsula. In combat fatigues he had said he hung up for good when he ran for president, the general-turned-politician met members of the army and delivered a televised speech to troops in Sinai, his first public comments on Wednesday's unprecedented attack. He said the group had tried to announce "an Islamic state, in their concept, an Islamic State in Sinai. "These are the messages, very simply, that they are putting out to us," he said, adding that the area was now under control. al-Sissi ...former general under Mubarak, then Defense Minister. Egypt overthrew Mubarak and endured a year of ham-fisted Moslem Brüderbund rule so al-Sissi could run for President-for-Life... praised the troops for "foiling a very big plan." "No one can impose on the Egyptians something they don't want," he said. "To reach the Egyptians they have to pass through the army, the sons of Egypt. The army said 17 soldiers and over 100 hard boyz were killed in Wednesday's brazen attack in Sinai, although before the release of its official statement, several security bigshots from multiple branches of Egypt's forces in the area had said that scores more troops also died in the fighting. The assault, which was claimed by an Islamic State group affiliate, lasted a whole day and was unprecedented in its size and coordination. The attack hit a string of army checkpoints and involved multiple suicide kabooms and the siege of a main cop shoppe with heavy weapons. It came in a week of bloodletting that saw Egypt's prosecutor general assassinated outside his Cairo home by a massive boom-mobile, and a special forces raid on an apartment that killed nine members of the outlawed Moslem Brüderbund. The Brotherhood responded by calling for a "rebellion," raising the prospect of a further uptick in violence. The Egyptian Foreign Ministry blamed all the past week's violence on the Brotherhood, which it said was not only the main source of Islamic extremism, but also coordinated operations on the ground. "All of these attacks were conducted days apart, and showed a level of sophistication and coordination that affirms the presence of organized terrorist activity perpetrated by the Moslem Brüderbund," it said in a statement given to news hounds on Saturday. Egypt routinely blames the Moslem Brüderbund for violent attacks in the country. Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry said the timing of the recent attacks make the associations between the Brotherhood and Daesh holy warriors "apparent." |
| Posted by:Fred |