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| Bedouins drawn into Egypt's Islamist fight |
| 2015-07-17 |
| [EN.ZAMANALWSL.NET] One afternoon in mid-April, a Bedouin woman screamed inside her single-storey, stone house in the Egyptian village of al-Taweela. The screams were so loud that neighbors took notice, said Ali Abu-Freij, a resident in the northern Sinai village. He and other locals saw four men in masks speed away from the house in a Toyota Land Cruiser. "When we went to the home to see what happened, we were surprised to find the husband tied up and saying that gunnies had kidnapped his wife," said Abu-Freij. The kidnappers -- who had identified themselves as Sinai Province, the most lethal Islamist group in Egypt -- vanished. But the following day, villagers found the 32-year-old woman's body nearby "with two gunshots in the head and a cut through her neck," said Abu-Freij. Two local tribal leaders said she had been raped. One of them, Mousa al-Delh, said a note found with the body said the woman had been killed because she had cooperated with the Egyptian army. |
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