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Captured Libyan terrorist confesses on Egyptian TV
2017-11-18
[Libya Herald] A Libyan terrorist captured in a major shootout with Egyptian security forces has confessed on air to his membership of Ansar al-Sharia
...a Salafist militia which claims it is not part of al-Qaeda, even though it works about the same and for the same ends. There are groups of the same name in Libyaand Yemen, with the Libyan versions currently most active. Tunisia's Shabaab al-Tawhid started out an Ansar al-Sharia and changed its name in early 2014. It still uses the old name now and then, probably because the stationery's not all used up and the web site hasn't expired yet...
saying he had fought with the Derna Mujahideen Shoura Council to oust IS Lions of Islam and then against the Libyan National Army.

Abdelrahman al-Mismari, 25, who is from Derna, was the sole survivor of 16 button men who were tracked down and cornered by Egyptian security forces near Wahat in western Egypt’s Giza province on 20 October. They had earlier been involved in a devastating desert ambush in which some reports say 52 police were killed in a hail of gunfire, RPGs and a series of IED kabooms. Egyptian officials however, say that only 16 police died.

The attack was claimed by a group calling itself Ansar al-Islam. The terrorist band was located and attacked by aircraft which appears to have killed or injured all of them except Mismari.

After Mismari’s captured, security forces conducted a wave of arrests. The authorities say that of the 29 Egyptians rounded up, 14 along with Mismari, continue to be held on suspicion of terrorist crimes.

Among the dead Lions of Islam was Emad Hatim, said to be a senior Lion of Islam figure, whom Mismari said he had met in 2015 in Derna. Interviewed on the Egyptian TV channel, Mismari said he had been infiltrated into Egypt this January and been been part of a group of gunnies in the Wahat area until the October shootout. The interior ministry in Cairo says that all of the Lions of Islam had been trained and armed in Libya.
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