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| Two Egyptian policemen shot dead by ISIS in Sinai |
| 2015-10-05 |
| [ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Two Egyptian coppers have been rubbed out in the bastion 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 Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) group in the Sinai Peninsula, the interior ministry said, in an attack claimed by the Lions of Islam Sunday. "A police captain and a policeman died of their wounds after unknown assailants shot them" late Saturday in the North Sinai quiet provincial capital El-Arish, the ministry said in a statement. The area is a stronghold of the Egyptian affiliate of the ISIS group that calls itself "Sinai Province". The group claimed the killings on a Twitter account affiliated to it, according to the SITE Intelligence Group. Sinai Province said it killed the two coppers in separate attacks in El-Arish, the monitoring group said. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #2 I'd forgotten about the emptying of the prisons. Useful information yet again, Beldar Sloque3832 -- thank you! |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2015-10-05 21:43 |
| #1 When Morsy and his Muslim Brotherhood emptied the Egyptian prisons in 2011 many of the Egypt Islamic Jihad and Gamaat al-Islamiya mujahideen reorganized in the Sinai. Their purpose was twofold: Support Hamas in Gaza, and threaten the Israeli flank in the Negev. The muj attracted many followers, including Brothers from Gaza, and they have been difficult to root-out. |
| Posted by: Beldar Sloque3832 2015-10-05 12:41 |