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Africa North
Egypt police kill 2 Ajnad Misr militants in gun battle in Giza
2015-07-29
[AlAhram] Egyptian police have killed two men suspected of involvement in violence against the state, state news agency MENA reported late Monday.

A security source told MENA that police had obtained information that two members of the Islamist krazed killer group Ajnad Misr [Soldiers of Egypt] were present in an apartment on Faisal Street, Giza.

MENA reported that the "terrorists" opened fire on officers upon their arrival at the apartment, "prompting police to shoot [the two men] dead."

Ajnad Misr has grabbed credit for several deadly attacks against police in Cairo, including an kaboom near the Ittihadiya presidential palace in June 2014 that killed two coppers, and a blast outside the foreign ministry in September of the same year that also left two coppers dead.

Police also announced killing a leader of the group in April, Hammam Mohammed Attiyah, also in a shootout at an apartment in Cairo.
An Nahar adds:
Egyptian police potted two alleged jihadists suspected of involvement in the recent bombing of the Italian consulate in Cairo in a raid Monday on an apartment in the capital, security officials said.

"The two jihadists belonged to Ajnad Misr (Soldiers of Egypt) and investigations reveal that they could be involved in the bombing of the Italian consulate," one official said, adding they were also wanted "for their role in assassinating coppers".

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 Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
group had claimed the July 11 bombing of the consulate -- the first such attack on a foreign mission in Egypt since jihadists launched a campaign against the country's security forces two years ago following a crackdown on Islamists. A civilian was killed and nine others were maimed in the attack.

Police say Attiya previously belonged to Ansar Beit al-Maqdis, the Egyptian branch of the Islamic State group, and that he broke away in 2013 to found Ajnad Misr, a group operating mainly in Cairo.
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