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Egypt sentences 40 suspected ISIS members to life in prison
2016-09-29
[Ynet] An Egyptian court has sentenced 40 people to life in prison over alleged ties to ISIS and for helping recruit youth to join the holy warriors in Syria and Iraq.

The Criminal Court of Zagazig issued its verdict on Wednesday against the alleged krazed killers, who were also convicted of plotting attacks against the police and Christians. Twenty of the suspects were sentenced in absentia.

Prosecutors say the group's alleged ringleaders were locked away
You have the right to remain silent...
at Cairo international airport on their way to Syria through The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
, and later gave detailed confessions.
Posted by:trailing wife

#2  An Albanian Special Forces company operated south of Kandahar, AFG. While patrol reports were spotty, contact engagements were particularly bloody and decisive. The Albanian company lost no one as I recall. Note the DShK mounted atop the MRAP.
Posted by: Besoeker   2016-09-29 08:25  

#1  It was said that in the mid-nineteen nineties, when the CIA helped roll-up an important Al Qaeda cell in Albania, the terrorists gave up important information when they learned they were to be transfered to Egypt for interrogation. The Egyptian Mukhabarat has a fearsome reputation -- both then and now
Posted by: Shick de Medici6262   2016-09-29 08:14