[IsraelTimes] Attack on Islamic State group near Rafah follows Sunday’s liquidation of police officerThe Egyptian army said Wednesday it killed 25 members of a militia affiliated with 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....
in the northern Sinai, Sky News Arabia reported.
An aerial attack by military helicopters on a camp of the Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis
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Supporters of Jerusalem, the current pen name of al-Qaeda in the Sinai Peninsula...
group killed 25 gunnies and maimed 15 others, near the border town of Rafah, the report said.
The attack was in response to the killing Sunday night of an Egyptian police major in al-Arish, the quiet provincial capital of North Sinai. The attack was claimed Monday by the Islamic State group, Egypt’s Interior Ministry said in a statement.
Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis has strong ties to Gazoo’s Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason,. Israel’s Channel 2 television reported in June that the commander of IS forces in the Sinai made a secret visit to the Gazoo Strip to meet with Hamas terror leaders to widen their cooperation and coordinate attacks on Egyptian and Israeli targets.
Shadi al-Menei, one of the founders of Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis, met with leaders of the Hamas military wing and discussed the ongoing supply of weapons sought by Hamas.