[AlAhram] Egypt’s Prosecutor-General Nabil Sadek referred on Monday 555 members of ISIS-affiliate Ansar Beit al-Maqdis to military court on charges of forming 43 terrorist cells.The cells' members committed 63 terrorist attacks, including the murder and attempted murder of members of the Armed Forces and police in North Sinai, a statement by the prosecution said.
The defendants are accused of supplying the terrorist group with funds and logistical support with the aim of targeting security facilities and military members in the governorate, as well as sabotaging a gas pipeline between Port Said and Sheikh Zuweid in North Sinai.
The prosecution is accusing primary suspect Ali Salman Ali Salem al-Dharaz of tasking a number of cadres with spreading ISIS's ideology in Sinai, which accuses the head of state, members of the army and Christians of being infidels.
The prosecution said that according to confessions by 216 of the defendants, the suspects were involved in the killing of Central Security Captain Mahmoud al-Zamlout and army Lieutenant Mohammed Abdel Razek, as well as shooting 10 security personnel and targeting armored vehicles, checkpoints and security locations with explosives and automatic weapons.
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Also Monday, a criminal court in Cairo sentenced nine suspects to life in prison on terror-related charges.
The Giza Criminal Court sentenced another two defendants each to five years on the same charges, which include joining 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....
Lion of Islam group. The court also acquitted three suspects in the case. The verdicts can be appealed.