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Africa North
Two bombings in Egypt's Sinai kill policeman, injure three
2015-06-19
[AnNahar] A policeman was killed and three others injured in two kabooms at dawn on Wednesday in the restive Sinai Peninsula, Al-Ahram Arabic reported.

Unknown assailants remotely detonated a roadside kaboom targeting a passing armoured vehicle in the town of Al-Arish in North Sinai.

A police officer, Major Mohammed Salah, was killed and two recruits maimed in the kaboom.

Another bomb went off earlier nearby, injuring another policeman.

The blasts caused cracks to nearby houses and led to a fire in an oil store, eyewitnesses said.
An Nahar points out:
The province is a stronghold of loyalists of 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 Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
group.
That would be Ansar Bayt al Maqdis/IS in the Sinai.
Posted by:trailing wife

#3  Attacks are running a bit late, eh?
Posted by: Pappy   2015-06-19 16:49  

#2  Day seven I thinks.
Posted by: Shipman   2015-06-19 08:15  

#1  Egypt opens Rafah crossing into Gaza in sign of easing tensions I wonder if there's a connection?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2015-06-19 02:22  

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