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| Mortar Fire Kills 11 Civilians in Egypt's Sinai |
| 2015-04-10 |
| [AnNahar] Mortar fire has killed 11 civilians, all but one of them women and kiddies, in Egypt's North Sinai, where the government is battling an Islamist insurgency, police and medics said Thursday. The mortar rounds, which hit two houses in a village southeast of the bustling provincial capital El-Arish Wednesday night, also maimed six people, the officials said without specifying who was behind the attack. Sinai is a hotbed of a jihadist group once known as Ansar Beit al-Maqdis, which changed its named to Sinai Province after pledging allegiance last year to the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... (IS) group. In a separate incident in the same area, a roadside kaboom targeting an armored personnel carrier killed two police and maimed three, police said. On April 2, Sinai Province claimed a series of simultaneous attacks that killed 15 soldiers and two civilians in the restive peninsula. The group has killed scores of security personnel since the army ousted Islamist president Mohammed Morsi in 2013. It says its attacks are in retaliation for the brutal crackdown against Islamists that left hundreds dead and thousands jugged Please don't kill me! As its name implies, the group wants to turn Sinai into a province of the self-declared IS "caliphate" in Syria and Iraq. |
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