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Africa North
Four Palestinians abducted by gunmen in Egypt
2015-08-20
A very odd tale, indeed.
[IsraelTimes] Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, says bus en route to Cairo intercepted by masked gunnies believed to be IS-affiliated, according to witnesses

Gazoo's Hamas rulers say gunnies kidnapped four Paleostinians in neighboring Sinai after intercepting a bus bound for Cairo airport.

Interior ministry front man Iyad Bezem said in a statement that the kidnapping took place late Wednesday night in the troubled northern Sinai region as the bus headed for the Rafah border crossing into Gazoo.

He said that his ministry had contacted its Egyptian counterpart "to establish the circumstances of what happened and demand that the Egyptians work to protect the victims and release them".

Some of the passengers who arrived safely described the assailants as wearing "Pak-type" clothes and holding laptop computers on which they checked passengers' names before separating the four from the group and taking them away.
Witnesses told The News Agency that Dare Not be Named that several masked gunnies opened fire in the air and stopped the bus half an hour after it rolled into the restive peninsula. They grabbed four youths and expeditiously departed at a goodly pace.

The witnesses -- Paleostinians who were in the bus -- preferred not to disclose their names fearing retribution. They said they believed the gunnies to be from the Egyptian 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 Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
 group.

Officials said that some of the passengers who arrived safely described the assailants as wearing "Pak-type" clothes and holding laptop computers on which they checked passengers' names before separating the four from the group and taking them away.

Hamas officials are trying to determine who the gunnies are.

North Sinai, where Egyptian security forces are fighting an Islamist insurgency, is a bastion of the Egyptian affiliate of the jihadist Islamic State (IS) group, which is spearheading an insurgency that has swelled since the army's ouster of president Mohammed Morsi in July 2013.

Formerly known as Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis
...Supporters of Jerusalem, the current pen name of al-Qaeda in the Sinai Peninsula...
, the key jihadist group in the region changed its name to "Sinai Province" when it pledged allegiance to IS in November.
Posted by:trailing wife

#1  Sounds like the recruiters were making a pick-up.
Posted by: Pappy   2015-08-20 11:32  

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