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2018-05-15 Africa North
Bodies of 20 Egyptian IS victims flown home from Libya
[AlAhram] The bodies of 20 Egyptian Christians who were excuted in 2015 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 Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
group in the Libyan city of Sirte were flown back to Egypt on Monday, al-Ahram Arabic news website reported.

According to al-Ahram, 22 ambulances arrived at Cairo International Airport to transfer the remains, which were flown from Libya by private plane, to Zeinhom Morgue.

The morgue will then identify the remains through DNA samples taken from the victims' families.

In February 2015 a video was released showing Islamic State group members in Libya beheading the 20 Coptic expatriate workers, most of whom were from Samalut city in Minya.

Another victim, reportedly from Ghana, was killed in the video alongside the Egyptians.

The Egyptians’ bodies were discovered in October 2017.

A day after the video's release, Egypt launched Arclight airstrikes on Islamic State group hideouts in the Libyan cities of Derna and Sirte in coordination with the Libyan army.
Posted by trailing wife 2018-05-15 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11135 views ]  Top
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