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Operation Sinai 2018, Day 7: Egyptian army kills 3 'takfiris', arrests 224 'criminal elements'
2018-02-17
[AlAhram] Three "takfiri
...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who most be killed...
s" were killed by the Egyptian armed forces in northern and central Sinai on Friday, the army said in a statement.

Military front man Tamer El-Rifai said forces also incarcerated
I ain't sayin' nuttin' widdout me mout'piece!
224 "wanted criminal elements", destroyed 10 4x4 vehicles and 68 weapons caches, and detonated 28 IEDs planted in the field of operations on Friday.

El-Rifai’s statement about the seventh day of Operation Sinai 2018, the military’s new counter-terrorism operation, is the eighth military communique on the operation since it began last week.

The operation involves land, naval and air operations. Land, sea and air forces have carried out security patrols to combat attempts to smuggle arms or infiltrate through southern and western borders, El-Rifai added.

Forces involved in the operation have also destroyed nine farms used to grow illegal narcotics and seized large amounts of drugs and communication facilities, he said.
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