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| Ansar Bayt al Maqdis blows up 5 policemen, shoots Coptic priest in Egypt's North Sinai |
| 2016-07-01 |
| [AlAhram] A policeman died Thursday after sustaining injuries from an improvised bomb that detonated in the troubled North Sinai city of Al-Arish, state news agency MENA reported. A security patrol was passing through a street in Al-Arish when the roadside kaboom went kaboom!. Four coppers sustained minor injuries during the kaboom and were transported to a nearby hospital. Coptic Christian priest killed in Egypt's North Sinai [AlAhram] A Coptic Christian priest was killed earlier Thursday in North Sinai, Egypt's interior ministry announced. Reverand Rofael Moussa, the priest of St George Church in Al-Arish, was killed early morning, shot down by a group of unknown assailants, the ministry said in a statement issued Thursday afternoon. Moussa was fixing his car when he was shot, the statement added. The murder and gunnies are currently being investigated by authorities. 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's Egyptian affiliate grabbed credit for the murder in a statement posted online, accusing the priest of "fighting Islam." The Egyptian Orthodox Church mourned the slain priest and condemned his murder. In July 2013, following the ouster of president Mohammed Morsi, gunnies also killed another Coptic Christian priest in Al-Arish. Christian citizens in North Sinai have been a target for Death Eaters, especially in Al-Arish. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #3 Abu- that is funny. lost my Coke Zero, so I did.... |
| Posted by: USN, Ret. 2016-07-01 19:32 |
| #2 Obama was not as successful in Egypt as he was in Libya, Iraq and Syria. |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2016-07-01 10:45 |
| #1 With the ouster of Mubarak the prisons were emptied and Islamic Jihad and Gamaat al-Islamiya convicts removed to the Sinai. In El Arish and along the Med coast they set up cells which were originally designed to assist HAMAS in Gaza. Hundreds of jihadis, including more radical Muslim Brothers, followed during the Morsy tenure. Thus, Sisi's effort to eliminate this Fifth Column has been slow and has cost many lives. But he is winning. |
| Posted by: Ulusoque Speaking for Boskone3139 2016-07-01 09:34 |