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| New Sinai Clashes Kill Two Children |
| 2015-01-31 |
| [AnNahar] Egypt's army clashed with jihadists in Sinai Friday, leaving two children dead as President Abdel Fattah al-Sissi flew home to deal with a wave of krazed killer attacks that killed at least 30 people. Health officials said a six-month-old baby was hit in the head by a bullet during the festivities and a six-year-old was killed in a rocket blast in the peninsula. Two more people including a 12-year-old were badly maimed by gunfire. Friday's violence came a day after jihadists targeted security forces with rockets and a boom-mobile in North Sinai province in simultaneous attacks claimed by an affiliate of 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.... group. Most of those killed were soldiers. Sisi pulled out of a gathering of African leaders in Æthiopia and flew home to oversee the response to the attacks. "After the terrorist operations in the North Sinai last night, the president decided to cut short his participation in the African Union ...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful... summit after attending the opening session, and returned to Cairo to monitor the situation," a statement from Sisi's office said. Security officials said the bodies of the 30 victims had been flown to Cairo. It was the deadliest wave of attacks since October when 30 soldiers were killed and scores maimed in simultaneous assaults on security forces. The fresh bloodshed came despite new security measures implemented in North Sinai since then. |
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