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| 27 more 'terrorists' killed in second day of major North Sinai operation |
| 2015-09-10 |
| [AlAhram] Egypt's army said it killed 27 Death Eaters in the latter stages of a second day of a major operation it began on Monday to eliminate Death Eaters in volatile North Sinai, bringing the corpse count to 56. The army said 154 suspected Death Eaters have now been locked away Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! by troops and anti-terror police backed up by air support. Operation Martyr's Right was launched on Monday morning to "root out terrorist elements" in the North Sinai towns of Rafah, Arish and Sheikh Zuweid, in what sources described as the biggest operation of recent months. Earlier on Tuesday the military said forces had killed 29 "terrorist elements" as it began the "comprehensive operation." It said an army officer and a soldier were also killed, and four maimed, when their armoured vehicle drove over a bomb. A subsequent statement late on Tuesday said another 27 had been killed, driving the toll up to 56 in two days. It added that forces burnt out several terrorist "dens" and destroyed two explosives caches and tens of cycle of violences and other vehicles used by Death Eaters in terrorist operations. It also released a three-minute video documenting air and ground assaults on targets in the northern part of the Sinai Peninsula. Islamist hard boy group Ansar Beit Al-Maqdis, the Egyptian 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.... -affiliate that has intensified attacks on army and police personnel since the 2013 ouster of Islamist president Mohammed Morsi, has grabbed credit for most anti-state attacks in Egypt's North Sinai. The group said it killed the two soldiers on Monday with a roadside kaboom that blew up their armoured vehicle as it left a military base in a large convoy. |
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