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| Egypt’s ‘largest-ever’ operation in Sinai – again |
| 2015-09-15 |
| [IsraelTimes] Why Cairo appears to be taking the Islamist threat from the peninsula more seriously than before It's now a routine. On each of the past four days, the front man of the Egyptian army, Mohammed Samir, has offered glowing reports of the military's achievements in its latest operation in northeast Sinai, which began in the middle of last week. On Thursday, Samir claimed Egyptian soldiers had succeeded in killing more than 80 terror operatives and arresting almost 200. He reported on the number of vehicles destroyed, and the cycle of violences, tunnels and warehouses used by the bully boyz (most of them members of Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #3 Bigger than the Ramadan unpleasantness? |
| Posted by: Shipman 2015-09-15 16:11 |
| #2 Egypt has been digging it for months, JosephM, wide and deep. We had the story here in June. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2015-09-15 10:49 |
| #1 As per REDDIT, EGYPT repor wants to build a Moat/Canal to keep separate from Hamas + repevent the construction of underground tunnels by the Paleos. Also, FYI the KSA is proceeding wid a proposed Salman Canal project in order to allow uninterrupted Oil-Gas ship traffic to bypass the seemingly Iran-controlled Strait of Hormuz. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2015-09-15 00:44 |