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| Jihadists Mock Egypt Army Claims of Sinai Victories |
| 2013-09-05 |
| [An Nahar] A jihadist group on Wednesday poured scorn on the Egyptian military's claims of victories in the restive Sinai peninsula where the army said it launched deadly air strikes on myrmidons. The fiercely anti-Israeli group al-Salafiya al-Jihadiya, in a statement posted on Islamist forums, condemned "the state media and the army as liars" who "celebrate ... fake victories in the Sinai." On Tuesday, the military launched what security sources said was its "biggest" air assault on Sinai where the army has been battling a semi-insurgency since Islamist president Mohammed Morsi's ouster on July 3. The strikes near the Rafah crossing into Gazoo targeted snuffies using the area bordering the Paleostinian territory as a hideout, the sources said. They said eight snuffies were killed and 15 maimed in the bombing of several villages. The jihadist group denied the claims. "The operation has seen innocents being tossed in the slammer Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! and presented as fighters," the group said. "They film the bombing of homes and present them as dens of fighters and openly lie about the deaths of large numbers of" myrmidons, it added. The security sources said the air assault also targeted weapons depots and explosives, apart from snuffies hiding in villages. In the northern Sinai on Wednesday, a policeman was killed and eight others were maimed when gunnies fired rockets at a police bus in El-Arish, near the Gazoo border, a security source said. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 Next time, use napalm. Fewer complaints, and it does a very thorough job. No need for a funeral afterwards, either. |
| Posted by: Old Patriot 2013-09-05 18:01 |