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| Over 45,000 Egyptians flee Libya after IS beheadings | |
| 2015-03-21 | |
[Al Ahram] More than 45,000 Egyptians have fled Libya since jihadists published a video last month showing the beheading of Coptic Christians, most of them Egyptian, an official and state media said Friday.
Egyptian Copts have been increasingly targeted by Islamist holy warriors, who beheaded 21 hostages last February, most of them Egyptian, prompting Cairo to carry out air strikes on a jihadist stronghold in Libya. By Friday, 11,500 Egyptians had flown home via Tunisia, Libya's western neighbour, since the beheadings were announced, civil aviation ministry front man Mohammed Rahma told AFP. Another nearly 34,000 Egyptians have crossed into Egypt from Libya by land in the same period, state media reported. 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's affiliate in Libya grabbed credit for the beheadings, releasing the video on February 15. The snuffies took a foothold in the country amid a conflict between rival governments and their supporter. | |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 Well I hope my house boy Mahmoud made it. Great lad, good friend, and very patient while trying to teach someone with a Texas accent the subtleties of Arabic pronunciation. |
| Posted by: Bill Clinton 2015-03-21 12:14 |