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| Egypt to Try Suspects in Foiled Attack on Temple Tourists |
| 2015-08-28 |
| [AnNahar] Egypt has referred 12 men to military trial for alleged involvement in a cell behind a narrowly averted attack on tourists at a pharaonic temple in June, prosecutors said Thursday. The assailants had been recruited by 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's Egyptian affiliate, along with two "foreigners" who were killed in the incident at the Karnak temple in Luxor, the prosecution said in a statement. Eight of the suspects had been tossed in the slammer Into the paddy wagon wit' yez! and four were still on the run, said a prosecution official. Their nationalities were not immediately clear. The June 10 attack was foiled by a suspicious taxi driver and police. One of the assailants went kaboom!and police rubbed out another before they could attack any tourists. A third, an Egyptian, was mistakenly maimed by a stray shot from another bully boy and arrested, the prosecution said. The suspects involved in the failed June attack had been recruited by the Ansar Beit al-Maqdis group, the prosecution said. The Sinai-based group, which has killed hundreds of soldiers and coppers in attacks, pledged loyalty to IS in November. The group had attacked tourists before, in a suicide kaboom in early 2014 that killed three South Koreans and their Egypt driver at a south Sinai resort town. |
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