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| Egypt to Reopen Rafah Crossing with Gaza |
| 2015-03-08 |
| [AnNahar] Egypt will reopen its Rafah border crossing with Gazoo for two days from Monday, for the fourth time since it was closed after a suicide kaboom, security officials said. The terminal was shut after the bombing in the Sinai Peninsula in October killed 30 soldiers, and has since been reopened three times. The only access point to the Gazoo Strip not controlled by Israel will reopen on Monday and Tuesday to allow Paleostinians stranded on both sides to cross. Paleostinians who travel through Rafah are mostly students heading to universities in Egypt or beyond, and those seeking medical treatment. October's attack also led to a state of emergency and curfew being imposed in some parts of North Sinai where security forces are battling an Islamist insurgency. The army has also created a wide buffer zone along the border with Gazoo aimed at preventing infiltration by bully boys. Despite these measures, on January 29 another 30 people were killed when rockets and a boom-mobile targeted a military base and other security posts in North Sinai. Ansar Beit al-Maqdis, a jihadist movement affiliated to the 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 that has seized territory in Syria and Iraq, has claimed most of the attacks in North Sinai, including those in October and January. It says its attacks are retaliation for a brutal government crackdown on supporters of Islamist president Mohammed Morsi, who was ousted by the army in July 2013. The military has said that in February 172 bully boyz were killed in joint police and army operations in the peninsula. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #3 g(r)om's theorem to be tested again? |
| Posted by: Pappy 2015-03-08 13:24 |
| #2 They're Paleos. It's genetic |
| Posted by: Frank G 2015-03-08 12:42 |
| #1 How soon before the scum try to storm the crossing with weapons or bombs this time? |
| Posted by: USN, Ret. 2015-03-08 11:11 |