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| Clashes erupt between Ansar Beit Al-Maqdis and local Bedouin tribe in Egypt's North Sinai |
| 2015-04-29 |
| [AlAhram] It's the first known incident of direct fighting between the IS-affiliated group and members of the influential Tarabin tribe Clashes erupted between Sinai-based holy warrior group Ansar Beit Al-Maqdis and members of the influential local Tarabin Bedouin tribe on Monday, local sources told Ahram Online. The festivities were located in Al-Mahadiya, south of Sheikh Zowaid, in North Sinai. It's the first known incident of Sinai locals engaging in direct fighting with the radical Islamist group. Local sources, who asked to remain anonymous for their safety, told Ahram Online that a group of men from the Tarabin Bedouin tribe decided to take up arms against the outlawed holy warrior group following constant attacks and threats to the tribe. On Sunday, the group grabbed credit for bombing a house owned by influential Tarabin tribe member and businessman Ibrahim El-Argany, allegedly for cooperating with the Egyptian army. El-Argany, who owns a construction company, on his official Facebook page told Ansar Beit Al-Maqdis that the group had gone too far and that the Tarabin tribe would fight them. The tribe's patience was over, he wrote. Online newspapers in Egypt have taken El-Argany's Facebook post to be equivalent to an official statement from the Tarabin tribe. Sources close to the Tarabin tribe however told Ahram Online that the tribe did not issue the statement, and that it was the act of an individual. Also on Sunday, Ansar Beit Al-Maqdis members distributed flyers warning Tarabin tribe members in South Rafah from cooperating with the Egyptian army. Photos of them distributing the flyers appeared on pro-IS websites and social media network accounts. The group, who recently changed its name to Sinai Province after joining 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.... holy warrior group, has previously published videos in which it claims responsibility for the beheadings of several North Sinai residents, including members of the Tarabin tribe, allegedly for cooperating with the Egyptian armed forces. Egyptian security forces have frequently denied that local tribes in North Sinai were allowed to be armed in order to fight back. An Islamist insurrection in North Sinai spiked after the ouster of Islamist president Mohammed Morsi in July 2013. Hundreds of members of the security forces have been killed, and hundreds of alleged Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! or killed in the military campaign against them. |
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| #2 No downside to this I'm afraid. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2015-04-29 10:53 |
| #1 Incarcerate less, kill more. |
| Posted by: Frank G 2015-04-29 09:03 |