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| ISIS (Ansar Bayt al Maqdis) may have seized weapons from interdicted shipment to Hamas |
| 2015-12-09 |
| [Ynet] Weapons that survived an Egyptian strike on an arms convoy heading to Islamic State's Sinai affiliate and used in a massive operation against Egyptian forces. Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, believes a shipment of arms to Gazoo that was interdicted by Egypt could have fallen into the hands of 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.... , Ynet has learned. A recent major-scale Egyptian operation to thwart the smuggling of weapons into the Gazoo Strip may have had an unintended consequence. A few days after the operation against a convoy of Gazoo-bound arms, fighters in Sinai from Ansar Beit al Maqdis, a group that pledged allegiance to the Islamic State nearly a year ago, mounted a large scale attack against Egyptian security forces in the peninsula using weapons similar to those seen in the shipment. The Hamas leadership believes that ISIS seized the weapons that remained intact after the Egyptian strike on the weapons convoy, having told Hamas that the weapons were destroyed. The Sinai branch of the radical terror organization has seemingly become independent of Hamas, despite basic logistical ties that were formed between the organizations. These ties included the transfer of ISIS fighters maimed in the fighting with Egyptian forces to Gazoo's Shifa hospital for medical treatment and the transfer of hundreds of thousands of dollars from Hamas to ISIS in Sinai in exchange for the smuggling of raw materials used in the strip's domestic weapons manufacturing. In order to facilitate the flow of weapons shipments, the ISIS affiliate, which took over the Sinai side of the Gazoo smuggling tunnels, demands a "tax" in the form of a small number of the weapons. |
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