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| Egypt police kill four Hasm terrorists involved in failed assassination attempt on Alexandria security chief | |
| 2018-06-29 | |
[AlAhram] Egypt's security forces killed four and placed in durance vileMaw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! two members of the terrorist group Hasm, who authorities say were responsible for a failed liquidation attempt on a security chief in the coastal city of Alexandria earlier this year. The suspects were killed in a shootout during a security raid on an apartment hideout in the Upper Egyptian governorate of Assiut, the interior ministry said in a statement on Thursday. The ministry said that the raid was part of an operation to arrest bully boyz involved in the Alexandria bombing in March ‐ which killed two coppers but failed to kill the city's security chief ‐ two days before the country held its 2018 presidential elections. The ministry statement added that police arrested the suspect who planted the boom-mobile at the site of the attack. The suspect was in possession of a pistol and kabooms at the time of his arrest, the statement added. "A security plan designed to track down and prosecute the other members of the terrorist cell... has resulted in identifying one of the terrorists, Moataz Mustafa Hassan, [who was] hiding in an apartment in Alexandria," the statement added. The ministry said that the suspect, along with other group members, received training abroad in 2017 on using weapons and making bombs. Another leader of Hasm, which authorities have identified as the armed wing of the banned Moslem Brüderbund group, was also arrested. In March, authorities announced that police had killed six Hasm members who were involved in the Alexandria bombing. Hasm has grabbed credit for several attacks on security forces and members of the judiciary since it first emerged in 2016.
[IsraelTimes] Ten suspected jihadists were killed and two tossed in the slammer Book 'im, Mahmoud! in police raids across Egypt as authorities hunted down the perpetrators of a deadly car kaboom, the interior ministry says. It says said those targeted were members of Hasam, a jihadist group which the authorities have linked to the outlawed Moslem Brüderbund. They were allegedly involved in a March 24 boom-mobileing on the eve of elections targeting a security chief in Alexandria in northern Egypt that killed two coppers. Six jihadists were killed and a weapons cache unearthed as security forces raided a hideout in Beheira province, northwest of Cairo, the ministry says. A suspect was arrested in a residential apartment in Alexandria where arms and explosives were also seized. A shootout in Assiut province, south of Cairo, left four other suspects dead, and a Hasam member who had allegedly acquired the car used in the Alexandria attack was also arrested. The ministry’s statement does not specify when the raids and arrests took place. | |
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