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| Israeli UAV Kills Three Sinai Terrorists |
| 2014-07-27 |
| [Ynet] IDF targets 3 hard boyz trying to fire rockets at southern Israel, kills relative of Ansar Bait al-Maqdis leader. Foreign media outlets, including the Egyptian newspaper Al Watan, have released a statement by the holy warrior Salafi organization Ansar Bait al-Maqdis which claims an Israeli UAV killed three of its members Wednesday in the northern Sinai Peninsula. According to the report, one of those killed was Khaled el-Manaei, a relative of the terror group's leader Shadi el-Manei. According to the report, the three were killed after attempting to fire rockets towards Israel. Thursday, the day after the alleged operation, Iron Dome intercepted a rocket fired on Eilat. Eyewitnesses from a village in the northern Gazoo Strip told Al Watan that the UAV destroyed a vehicle with three gunnies near a mosque at the heart of the village. The same eyewitnesses claimed that the leader of Ansar Bait al-Maqdis, Shadi el-Manaei, had ordered the three holy warriors to shoot Grad rockets ...Soviet-developed 122-mm rockets, usually launched from trucks. Newer versions are reported to have a range of up to 30 km.... towards Israel. The group even released a video during the operation documenting its rocket fire on communities in southern Israel. According to Al Watan, hard boyz attempted to fire three Grad rockets, but an Israeli UAV that was patrolling the border region identified the terrorists' movement. They tried to escape in a vehicle, but were hit with missiles from the UAV. Two kabooms were heard, according to the report. An Egyptian Defence Ministry source denied reports that the three Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis ... Supporters of Jerusalem, the current pen name of al-Qaeda in the Sinai Peninsula... fighters had been killed by an Israeli drone. The Israeli military declined to comment. An earlier statement from the armed forces front man said that the Egyptian army killed three hard boyz in their car during a raid on Wednesday. "There has been no violation of Egyptian airspace by any kind of aircraft, whether Israeli or others," the source said. Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis made the announcement on Friday morning on a website on which it regularly posts its statements. "A number of Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis Jihadists were martyred as their car was hit by an Israeli drone on Wednesday evening," the group said in the statement, listing three. The Lion of Islams' statement did not elaborate on how they knew they had been targeted by a drone, which often attack from high altitude and use advanced munitions that make them almost invisible and inaudible. Among the objectives of Sinai jihadis is undermining the 1979 peace treaty between Israel and Egypt, under which the Sinai was demilitarized. Israel says its air force does not operate over Egypt. The United States designated the group as a terrorist organization in April, saying it had launched rockets at Israel's southern city of Eilat and attacked Israeli border guards. It has also targeted Egyptian and foreign tourists and Israel, the department said. The Sinai-based group, formed in the wake of the 2011 uprisings in Egypt, has grabbed credit for several high-profile attacks, including an liquidation attempt on Egypt's interior minister last year Meanwhile, ...back at the dirigible, the pilot and the copilot had both hit the silk. Jack!Cynthia exclaimed. Do you know how to drive one of these things? Jack wiped some of the blood from his knuckles. No,he said. Do you?... news agencies reported that two high-ranking Egyptian police and army officers were rubbed out by unknown assailants on Friday in the Sinai region near the border with Israel, army and security sources said. Both had the rank of brigadier general and were rubbed out in the city of Sheikh Zuwaid, the sources told Rooters. Security forces are struggling to quell an Islamist insurgency that has killed scores of soldiers and coppers in the peninsula, which borders Israel and the Paleostinian Gazoo Strip. The attacks surged after the military overthrew Islamist president Mohammed Mursi last year and the hard boyz extended their reach to the Egyptian mainland with a series of bombings. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #1 What were they thinking about---trying to operate without human shields? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2014-07-27 01:06 |