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Africa North
Son of Sinai's Israel resistance leader dies in military crackdown
2013-09-30
[Al Ahram] According to news reports, the son of well-known resistance leader Sheikh Hassan Khalf was killed Friday in Sheikh Zowaid area near Rafah, Sinai, by a stray bullet during a campaign waged by Egypt's army against Death Eaters in the Sinai since the ouster of Morsi on 3 July.

Egyptian armed forces presented formal condolences on Sunday to Sheikh Khalf for the death of his son, Hussein.

"The armed forces present sorrowful condolences to Sheikh Hassan Khalf, Sheikh of the 'Mujahedeen' in Sinai for the martyrdom of his son two days ago. We express our deepest condolences as commanders, officers and soldiers to his family, praying for God to grant them patience," read a statement published by official army front man Col. Ahmed Mohamed Ali.

Sheikh Khalf has often been called "the Sheikh of the Mujahedeen," in reference to his leading role in local resistance movements that cooperated with military intelligence from 1967 to 1973.
What happened in 1973? Oh, right -- Israel took the Sinai away from Egypt in that little war Egypt started. In other words, the honoured sheikh was a paid terrorist asset of the Egyptian army, exactly like the ISI still does in Pakistan.
During the resistance years he was placed in durance vile
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by the Israeli army and sentenced to 149 years in jail for military operations in Sinai, including an attack on the Israeli rulers' HQ and Israeli army's camps in northern Sinai.

Some of the operations he participated in are the Arish airport bombing, the bombing of the headquarters of the Israeli military ruler and an attack on the Israeli camps.
Posted by:Fred

#2  Arabic to English.
Posted by: Pappy   2013-09-30 14:03  

#1  A very strange headline---babylon?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2013-09-30 02:45  

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