[Al Ahram] Egypt's army has rubbed out an alleged Islamist bully boy suspect, wanted for a 2012 terror attack in the restive Sinai Peninsula that left 16 soldiers killed, an army front man said Tuesday.Spokesman for the Egyptian Armed Forces Ahmed Ali announced on his official Facebook page that a raid launched Monday killed Selmi Mohammed "Abou Khaled" Mosbeh, described as a leading Jihadist and member of the Ansar Beit Al-Maqdis (supporters of Jerusalem) bully boy group.
Abou Khaled, among others, allegedly planned to attack a military checkpoint in north Sinai's Rafah when the army initiated an exchange of gunfire leading to his death and the arrest of 20 other suspected forces of Evil as well as the confiscation of a stock of ammunition.
The alleged suspect was wanted for an attack carried out on the Egyptian border with Gazoo during the one-year-rule of Islamist President Mohammed Morsi
...the former president of Egypt. A proponent of the
One Man, One Vote, One Timeprinciple, Morsi won election after the deposal of Hosni Mubarak and jumped to the conclusion it was his turn to be dictator...
, which left 16 Egyptian soldiers killed, said the army front man.
Ansar Beit Al-Maqdis have grabbed credit for a number of terror attacks, including one on a military intelligence building in the Suez Canal city of Ismailia where at least six were maimed after a boom-mobile detonated. Another was a failed liquidation attempt on Minister of Interior Mohammed Ibrahim in September.