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| Eyptian Ansar Beit al Maqdis: leader isn't dead yet | |
| 2014-05-26 | |
The group also denied Menei was its leader, in a statement published on militant Internet forums accompanied by a picture of him reading a report about his "death" on a laptop. The picture could not be immediately authenticated. Ansar Beit Al Maqdis, based in the Sinai Peninsula, has spearheaded attacks that have killed hundreds of policemen and soldiers since July 2013 when the army ousted president Mohammed Mursi. "As the military suffers losses in its ranks, it claims illusory great victories," the statement said. "They announced that they killed Shadi Al Menei and that he was the emir (leader) of the group. He was neither killed nor was the emir." It said in the statement the authorities have not even identified its leader, who the group said "is safe". | |
| Posted by:Steve White |