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Africa North
Egypt launches airstrikes on IS affiliate in Sinai, killing 15
2016-01-01
[IsraelTimes] Fighter jets enter Gazoo airspace in attacks on jihadists; shell fired by snuffies kills family of 5

The Egyptian air force began intensive Arclight airstrikes on Thursday morning against a local branch 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 Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
group in Egyptian Rafah, near the border with the Gazoo Strip, local media reported.

Paleostinian sources were quoted by the Walla news site as saying that Egyptian fighter jets were entering Gazoo's airspace in their attacks on the Wilayat Sinaa group (formerly known as Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis
...Supporters of Jerusalem, the current pen name of al-Qaeda in the Sinai Peninsula...
), which has grabbed credit for numerous deadly attacks on Egyptian soldiers and civilians over the last two years.

Sky News Arabia reported that 15 people had been killed in the Arclight airstrikes.

Egyptian officials said Thursday that gunnies in the restive northern Sinai had shelled a home near a security checkpoint in Rafah, killing an entire family of five and wounding a teenage neighbor.

Medical and security officials said that one of the victims, a five-year-old girl, remains buried under the rubble of the demolished home. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to news hounds.

No one immediately grabbed credit for the attack.
Posted by:trailing wife

#2  That'll be when they start bombing Gaza, instead of merely flying over it.
Posted by: Pappy   2016-01-01 11:33  

#1  getting serious?
Posted by: Frank G   2016-01-01 09:19  

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