[Libya Herald] The Egyptian government has vowed to avenge the deaths of the Egyptian soldiers killed by faceless myrmidons in a suicide kaboom in southern Sinai on Friday. It is being suggested that this could involve targeting known terror camps in eastern Libya.
| An interesting choice. Also useful to the generality of Mid-Eastern humanity and beyond, but not at all what I would have expected. |
At least 30 military personnel were killed in the Sinai blast which targeted a security checkpoint in Sheikh Zuweid.
Egyptian sources have said that initial investigations of the Sinai massacre have shown that a number of the faceless myrmidons involved belong to the Moslem Brüderbund and were trained in eastern Libya.
| Ah. That does change things. |
Moreover, it is being claimed that the weapons and munitions used in the attack bore Libyan serial numbers.
| That's not necessarily meaningful, surely. After we led from behind in the effort by Britain and France (and possibly Italy, but it's been so long I don't remember the details) to remove Moammar Khadaffi, his weapons stashes were sold to just anybody who had enough of the green stuff. |
Egyptian authorities have been saying that for a long time faceless myrmidons are being trained in eastern Libya. They maintain that some 3,000 fighters have been passed through these battle camps. Some of them have reportedly then gone on to fight alongside 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 Libya and 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...
The Sinai killings are being described by Cairo as a retaliation for Egypt's claimed involvement in air attacks in Libya and supply of weapons to pro-government forces. President Abdel Fatteh Al-Sisi's government has denied it has had anything to do with air assaults.
| Fascinating, the Byzantine gyrations of the Mid-Eastern mind. |
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