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| Sinai Terrorists Pledge Loyalty To Islamic State | ||
| 2014-11-11 | ||
| [Ynet] New audio tape, released on Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis ... Supporters of Jerusalem, the current pen name of al-Qaeda in the Sinai Peninsula... ' Twitter account, proclaims former al-Qaeda ally has switched allegiances to al-Baghdadi.
...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 Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... , the al-Qaeda offshoot which has seized territory in Syria and Iraq, according to an audio clip posted on its Twitter account. If genuine, the declaration of allegiance would be a boost for Islamic State, showing its widening influence in the region alongside its territorial advances in Iraq and Syria. The Sinai-based hard boy group posted the clip, which is 9 minutes and 26 seconds in length, early on Tuesday morning on a Twitter account that calls itself the official mouthpiece of Ansar. The clip was then carried on a website used by Islamists. Rooters was not immediately able to verify the authenticity of the statement or contact the group directly for comment. In the clip, a man identifies himself only as part of the group's "information department". He says the murderous Moslems had pledged loyalty to His Supreme Immensity, Caliph of the Faithful and Galactic Overlord, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi ...formerly merely the head of ISIL and a veteran of the Bagram jailhouse. Looks like a new messiah to bajillions of Moslems, like just another dead-eyed mass murder to the rest of us... , head of Islamic State, which is now facing US-led air strikes. The Twitter account has issued other statements on the group's behalf in recent months. It is often suspended and re-opened; one of these shutdowns occurred hours before the statement was tweeted. The posting comes the week after the group distanced itself from a statement pledging loyalty to Baghdadi that appeared in its name online and was reported by Rooters.
In September, Islamic State issued a statement urging holy warriors in Sinai to push ahead with attacks on the country's security forces. Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sissi has said Egypt faces an "existential threat" from Sinai-based murderous Moslems who have killed hundreds of police and soldiers since the army ousted Islamist President Mohammed Morsi last year. Last month, at least 33 security personnel were killed in two successive attacks, prompting Egypt to declare a three-month state of emergency in parts of northern Sinai. The attacks were a setback for the government, which had managed over the past few months to make some progress in the struggle against holy warriors and focus on repairing the economy. | ||
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