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| Egypt’s El-Sisi repeats order to restore security in Sinai with 'all brute force' |
| 2017-11-30 |
| [ARABNEWS] Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi has given the army and the Interior Ministry three months to restore security in the Sinai Peninsula with freedom to use "all brute force." This comes a week after 311 Egyptian worshippers were killed and 128 others injured in a terrorist attack on a mosque in North Sinai during Friday prayers; it was the deadliest terror attack in Egypt’s modern history. El-Sisi has promised massive development for the Bir al-Abd area in North Sinai where the attack took place. "We will make Bir al-Abd a city that is referred to as a model of prosperity and development; we can never allow anyone to do such a thing again to our people," El-Sisi said on Wednesday morning. El-Sisi issued his orders in public, addressing the Army Chief of Staff, Mohammed Farid Hegazy, who led the military salute to the president. The Egyptian president repeated the phrase "brute force" in what appeared to be a response to criticism in a number of foreign newspapers and on social networking sites after the phrase was used last Friday to describe the response to any future terrorist acts. The uproar prompted presidential front man Bassam Radhi to explain that what El-Sisi meant by "brute force" was "the ferocious force that mercilessly oppresses the aggressor, pursues the terrorists, and kills them all." Radhi said on Saturday that the incident underscored the despair of the forces of extremism and revealed their ugly face. "The more their strength weakens, the more they want to inflict greater losses because they have been completely routed." He stressed that Egypt would avenge the victims of the mosque attack and that the perpetrators of the atrocity would not escape punishment. No group has grabbed credit for the al-Rawdah mosque attack in Bir al-Abd. The Egyptian public prosecutor’s office, however, said that gunnies carrying flags of ISIS opened fire on worshippers inside the mosque and on those who tried to escape after an bomb exploded. |
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