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Africa North
Deadly mosque attack puts Egypt’s Sinai strategy in spotlight
2017-11-29
[IsraelTimes] After three bloody years battling an Islamist insurgency in the peninsula, Egypt's army still faces deadly mass attacks by 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....
terrorists.


Egypt’s years-long military campaign against a jihadist insurgency in the north of the Sinai Peninsula is under increasing scrutiny following a devastating mosque attack last week. More than 300 people were killed in Friday’s bomb and gun assault ‐ the deadliest in the country’s recent history ‐ highlighting the myrmidons’ ability to carry out spectacular attacks despite the deployment of tens of thousands of troops.
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