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Egypt's army announces killing of Ansar Beit Al Maqdis leader
2016-08-05
Hopefully this time it won't turn out they were mistaken.
[AlAhram] Egyptian armed forces announced Thursday the killing of holy warrior group Ansar Beit Al-Maqdis leader Abu Doaa Al-Ansari and a number of his associates in air strikes against the group's strongholds south and south-west of Al-Arish in Sinai, the army front man said.

In a statement on his official Facebook page, the army front man announced that the operation, which was undertaken by anti-terrorist forces in cooperation with the air force, also killed 45 members of the Sinai-based group, injured dozens and destroyed weapons, ammunition and explosives storage facilities.

The group, which originated in Sinai, pledged allegiance to 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....
in Iraq and Syria and its leader, Abu Bakr El-Baghdadi, in November.

Ansar Beit Al-Maqdis has grabbed credit for most of the attacks against security personnel and installations in the restive North Sinai.

The army recently announced the killing of hundreds of the bandidos bully boyz in a military operation entitled Martyr's Right.
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