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| 21 suspected Sinai militants arrested, 8 Gaza tunnels razed |
| 2014-03-27 |
[Al Ahram] Security forces in North Sinai have tossed in the clink... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... 21 suspected gunnies and destroyed eight tunnels connecting the border town of Rafah with the Paleostinian Gazoo Strip, the Egyptian army's front man Ahmed Ali said on Wednesday. Ali said that four of the 21 detainees were jihadi gunnies tasked with monitoring the army's movements in the town of Sheikh Zuweid in preparations for an attack on security forces. One person arrested in the campaign had broken out of jail during the January 2011 uprising where he had been serving a sentence of 85 years for a variety of charges, Ali said. The rest of the suspects will undergo security screenings, he added. The army's two-day offensive in North Sinai also hit a number of bully boy hideouts, said Ali, including two warehouses containing explosives and weapons along with a number of vehicles and cycle of violences. Egypt's army has been locked in an ongoing battle with suspected Islamist gunnies since the ouster 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... in July, as bully boy groups have stepped up attacks against security forces. While the attacks have remained largely in the Sinai Peninsula, gunnies have also grabbed credit for bombings and killings in the Nile Delta and Cairo. |
| Posted by:Fred |