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| Egypt Thwarts Islamic State-Linked Bid To Hit Israeli Targets At Sea |
| 2014-12-02 |
| [IsraelTimes] Egypt thwarted a bid by 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.... -affiliated forces of Evil to attack Israeli targets in the Mediterranean Sea last month, Israel's Channel 2 reported Monday. The forces of Evil commandeered an Egyptian Navy missile boat for the planned attack, the TV report said, but were stopped at sea by a pursuing vessel, and eight people were believed killed in the ensuing battle. At the time of the incident, on November 12, the Egyptian military said one of its navy vessels came under "terrorist" attack in the Mediterranean, leaving five servicemen injured and eight others missing at sea. Four boats used by the assailants were destroyed and 32 of the suspected Lions of Islam were tossed in the slammer Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! and were under interrogation, the military said in a statement at the time. Adding fresh detail to that account, Monday's Israeli TV report said Islamic State-linked Sunni murderous Moslems "staged an accident" and were able to install one of their own group in temporary charge of an Egyptian missile boat. They set out for sea from the port of Damietta, and intended to target Israeli boats and/or gas installations in the Mediterranean. Egyptian naval authorities, realizing something was awry on the basis of routine radio exchanges with the commandeered vessel, sent out other vessels in pursuit. "They managed to neutralize" the terrorists. The TV report did not give a source for the new information. It noted the very close cooperation between the Egyptian and Israeli navies. Egypt's official MENA news agency had reported on November 12 that a naval vessel was set alight in an exchange of fire with assailants about 70 kilometers off Egypt's coast. It said the Egyptian air force was also called in to deal with the incident. Earlier last month, Rooters reported that a Sinai-based al-Qaeda affiliate group declared its fealty to Islamic State, the terror organization which has taken over large parts of Syria and Iraq. The Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis ... Supporters of Jerusalem, the current pen name of al-Qaeda in the Sinai Peninsula... terror group said in a statement that "after entrusting God we decided to swear allegiance to the emir of the faithful His Supreme Immensity, Caliph of the Faithful and Galactic Overlord, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi ...formerly merely the head of ISIL and a veteran of the Bagram jailhouse. Looks like a new messiah to bajillions of Moslems, like just another dead-eyed mass murder to the rest of us... , caliph of the Moslems in Syria and Iraq and in other countries," referring to the leader of IS who has declared the territory under his control to be a new Moslem caliphate and himself its ruler. The Sinai group has carried out numerous attacks against Egyptian forces since the military overthrew Islamist president Mohammed Morsi last year amid massive protests against him. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #4 The longer the US-Allies = International/ OWG "Global Community' put off destroying the ISIS as a viable movement + polity, the greater the prob that the ISIS will have a de facto Navy one day. Perhaps to rival Rising Iran + Turkey ...??? * WAFF > [Defence Turkey] TURKISH NAVY HAS SET SAIL TOWARDS BECOMING A MEDIUM GLOBAL FORCE PROJECTION NAVY. Interview wid Turkish Navy Chief ADM. Bulent Bostanoglu. VERSUS * GROONG > [BarbWire.com = Avatar] RISING TURKISH MENACE: NATO ALLY WANTS ISLAMIC ADVANCE IN LATIN AMERICA. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2014-12-02 22:28 |
| #3 Note: here is the original story, which we had here on November 13th. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2014-12-02 15:43 |
| #2 Time to bring back yard-arms and keel hauling. |
| Posted by: AlanC 2014-12-02 07:58 |
| #1 Too generous of Egypt to only jail the terrorists after they threw the 8 missing Egyptian sailors overboard (have to assume so, unless otherwise proven from statements by the surviving sailors). |
| Posted by: USN, Ret. 2014-12-02 06:16 |