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Africa North
Egypt in 'Major Operation' against ISIL in Sinai
2015-09-09
[ALMANAR.LB] Egypt's army said Tuesday it had launched a "major military operation" in the Sinai Peninsula against the Takfiri
...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who must be killed...
group, ISIL (so-called 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....
in Iraq and Levant), killing 29 forces of Evil and leaving two soldiers dead.

"Units of the police and army launched Operation Right of the Martyr at dawn to eliminate terrorist elements in Rafah, Sheikh Zuweid and El-Arish in North Sinai," the army said in a statement.

Egypt military"Twenty-nine miscreants were killed... while an officer and a non-commissioned soldier were killed and four others maimed when their vehicle was blown up by a bomb."

The army often reports large corpse counts among the Death Eaters but they are impossible to verify and there has been little noticeable impact on the ability of ISIL to carry out deadly attacks on the security forces.
Posted by:Fred

#1  no prisoners.
Posted by: OldSpook   2015-09-09 21:39  

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