...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 and 345 were tossed in the calaboose
Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out!
by army and police forces during the last five days of the counterterrorism Operation Sinai 2018, which started on 9 February in Sinai and other parts of the country.
The Arabic word "takfiri" refers to holy warrior Sunni Moslems who accuse other Moslems and followers of other religions of being infidels, often as a justification for using violence against them.
"One officer and three soldiers were killed during operations, while another three officers, a non-commissioned officer and five soldiers were maimed," the front man said.
The statement added that six takfiris were killed during a shootout with police forces in the North Sinai capital of El-Arish.
Air forces destroyed 12 targets used as shelter by gunnies and as well as a booby-trapped vehicle whose driver attempted attack a security checkpoint west of El-Arish.
The army has also located and destroyed 17 vehicles, 67 cycle of violence
s, and 93 IEDs, in addition to confiscating large amounts of TNT, plastic explosives, ammunition and firearms.The operation targets "terrorist and criminal elements and organizations" in northern and central Sinai, as well as parts of the Nile Delta and the Western Desert, the army said at the start of the operation.
The front man said that counterterrorism forces from the army, along with police forces and border guards, are continuing combing operations in pursuit of any gunnies or criminal elements.
The border guards, in cooperation with forces tasked with securing the Suez Canal waterway, are continuing their mission to protect navigation and tighten security measures at the crossings leading into the Sinai Peninsula.