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| Egypt’s Islamic State group affiliate confirms killing of its chief |
| 2016-08-19 |
| [AlAhram] Egypt’s affiliate 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.... group has confirmed the death of its chief, which comes two weeks after the military announced the killing during an operation in the North Sinai. In a statement shared online by accounts affiliated to the group on Thursday, the group said that Abu Doaa Al-Ansari along with other fighters were killed while "countering a military campaign by the apostate army." On 4 August, the Egyptian army said it had killed Al-Ansari along with his top aides and dozens of others jihadists in a series of Ansar Beit Al-Maqdis was the original name of the group, which now calls itself Sinai Province. The group, which has claimed most of the deadly violence over the past year, swore allegiance to the Islamic State group in November 2014. It said in its statement that a new chief, Sheikh Abdullah, has been named, while warning that worse and "more bitter" attacks are yet to come. The military has carried out several campaigns to crush gunnies and cut off their arms supplies. The army said it had killed 88 snuffies in the third phase of its 'Right of the Martyr' campaign in May, and that another 22 were killed in a multi-day operation early in June. |
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