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| Another Headless Corpse Found In Sinai |
| 2014-08-31 |
| [IsraelTimes] A day after a Sinai terrorist group announced it had beheaded four Egyptian men for spying for Israel, villagers in Rafah on Friday discovered the beheaded corpse of a young man. Rooters' Egyptian website, Aswat Masriya, reported that the villagers, residents of Nagaa Shabana in north Sinai, found the body of a 23-year-old man who eyewitnesses said was kidnapped on Thursday near his house by gunnies driving an SUV. The severed head was reportedly placed in the mortuary of a nearby hospital as Egyptian police worked with local rustics in the restive peninsula to identify the perpetrators. In a video released Thursday, Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis ... Supporters of Jerusalem, the current pen name of al-Qaeda in the Sinai Peninsula... grabbed credit for the execution and said the young man and three others had provided intelligence to Israel's Mossad agency. The video showed men in black masks beheading the accused collaborators as they kneeled on the ground, according to Rooters. The terror group said that the men provided intelligence to Israel used in a July Two of the executed men served time in Israeli jails for smuggling, and two had said the Mossad had paid them for information, the group asserted in the video. Earlier this month, the decapitated bodies of four men were found in the Sinai Peninsula, with Egyptian security forces suspecting they had been killed for aiding the Egyptian army. Egypt's military has been carrying out a vast offensive against jihadist groups in the north of Sinai since bully boyz stepped up attacks following the army's ouster of Islamist president Mohammed Morsi in July last year. Militants in northern Sinai, which also borders Israel and the Gazoo Strip, have launched a number of attacks in retaliation for a government crackdown on supporters of Morsi. At least 1,400 people have been killed in the crackdown, mostly Islamist supporters of Morsi. The holy warrior attacks usually target security forces, but they have also led to civilian casualties. |
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