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| 10 Hurt in Controlled Blast of Car Bomb in Egypt's Sinai |
| 2014-11-13 |
| [AnNahar] Ten people were hurt Tuesday when police in Egypt set off a controlled kaboom of a bomb-rigged car in the town of El-Arish in north of the restive Sinai peninsula, security officials said. Those maimed were in their nearby home when the kaboom went off. They were taken to hospital. "We blew up the car remotely. There was a half a tonne of explosives" inside, an interior ministry front man, Hani Abdel Latif, told AFP. It was too dangerous to try to defuse the bomb, he explained. He added that those injured were cut by shattered window glass. Tuesday's blast came during a nighttime curfew ordered since an October 24 suicide kaboom that killed 30 soldiers in a Sinai zone bordering the Gazoo Strip. It was not clear what the car-bomb was targeting. Attacks targeting security forces in the peninsula have occurred frequently since the army toppled Islamist president Mohammed Morsi in July last year. Most are claimed by jihadist groups reacting to crackdowns by authorities. Egypt's Ansar Beit al-Maqdis jihadist group, which has carried out a string of deadly attacks from its Sinai stronghold, on Monday pledged loyalty to Islamic State ...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.... group active in Syria and Iraq. |
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