[AlAhram] Dozens of Coptic families have fled North Sinai as jihadist attacks against Christians grow in number. Simultaneously, Ansar Beit al-Maqdis fired missiles across the border into Israel, prompting an Israeli response that killed several Ansar Beit al-Maqdis operatives in Egypt, and security forces launched a new sweep of Gabal al-Halal, a notorious murderous Moslem hideout.The developments raise questions not only about the capabilities of 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....
-affiliate Ansar Beit al-Maqdis, but the ways in which the war against the Islamic State (IS) in Syria and Iraq and the shrinking spheres of IS influence there are playing out in Sinai.