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2020-05-16 Africa North
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North Sinai security situation may be deteriorating, concern increases
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[Jpost] Experts caution that Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really 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 western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
terror cells could be moving from east to west, potentially getting closer to Suez Canal, mainland Egypt.
Analysts say the security situation in Egypt’s North Sinai region is deteriorating following a deadly attack claimed by Islamic State.
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Thursday’s blast targeted an armored vehicle south of Bir al-Abd, killing or wounding 10 soldiers, including an officer, Egypt’s military said.
Two days after the attack, Egyptian security forces raided a home in Bir al-Abd, killing 18 suspected bandidos forces of Evil in a firefight, according to Egypt’s Interior Ministry.
Bir al-Abd was the scene of the deadliest terrorist attack in Egyptian history in 2017 when around 40 button men opened fired during Friday prayers at the Sufi al-Rawda mosque, killing and wounding hundreds.
The latest round of violence there has observers concerned that Islamic State’s Sinai affiliate is moving east to west along the coastal road, beyond where Islamic State — Wilayat Sinai (Sinai Province) terror cells have traditionally operated since the insurgency began in 2011 — places such as Rafah and Sheikh Zuweid.
Wilayat Sinai is getting closer to the Suez Canal and mainland Egypt despite Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi authorizing a massive security operation in 2018 following the 2017 mosque attack. The counter-terror campaign, dubbed Comprehensive Operation − Sinai 2018, mostly targeted Islamist forces of Evil in northern and central Sinai and parts of the Nile Delta.
"The closer you get to the Suez Canal, the more worried the Egyptians should be. It is a major navigation route, a major source of income to Egypt," Professor Yossi Mekelberg, a Middle East research fellow at Chatham House, told The Media Line.
Mekelberg said that the westward movement beyond their traditional territory shows that Wilayat Sinai has become more confident and daring. That should concern not just Egypt but Israel, as well, and if terror attacks continue closer to the Suez Canal, the international community could get involved — a scenario that, according to Mekelberg, might draw in NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Originally it was a mutual defense pact directed against an expansionist Soviet Union. In later years it evolved into a mechanism for picking the American pocket while criticizing the cut of the American pants...
"I think the Sinai hard boyz have sought to target the Suez Canal from the beginning of their campaign," Jim Phillips, Middle East expert at the Heritage Foundation, told The Media Line. "It is a vital strategic asset and economic engine for Egypt and the Islamist forces of Evil seek to damage Egypt’s economy, particularly tourism, to undermine the regime. Attacking the canal also would yield global publicity, which the hard boyz covet."
Phillips was critical of Egypt’s counterinsurgency strategy, saying that Egypt was married to conventional military tactics against an unconventional enemy while alienating local Bedouins recruited by Wilayat Sinai.
"Many Bedouin tribes in the Sinai long have complained about being discriminated against by Egypt’s central government, which they charge provides few economic benefits for their rustics," Phillips said. "They have cooperated with ISIS and other Islamist forces of Evil based in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response ...
to smuggle arms, people and illicit goods into Egypt and Gaza."
At about 23,000 square miles (60,000 square km, around the size of West Virginia), the sparsely populated Sinai Peninsula is vast, complicating the Egyptian military’s efforts to defeat the insurgency.
"These groups are more and more entrenched in Sinai. It is difficult to control the Sinai. It is a big territory," Mekelberg said.
The coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague)
 ...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...
pandemic demonstrates how a health crisis can quickly shift attention and resources.
"The Egyptian army is dealing with this and managed to contain it," Mekelberg said. "But it is not easy because Egypt is a huge country with plenty of issues beyond the Sinai Peninsula." 
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