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| Egypt's warplanes strike back at militants in troubled Sinai |
| 2015-07-03 |
| [WASHINGTONPOST] Egyptian warplanes launched new ...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.... -linked murderous Moslems set off the area's bloodiest fighting in decades in an unprecedented, coordinated attack. The combat, described as "war" by the media and officials, heightened tensions across Egypt as it marks Friday's second anniversary of the military's overthrow of Islamist President Mohammed Morsi, a move that fanned an insurgency in north Sinai that has grown stronger. It also follows the dramatic liquidation this week of the country's chief prosecutor in a boom-mobileing in Cairo, prompting general-turned-politician President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi to press for even harsher anti-terrorism laws targeting Islamic bad boys. A special forces raid Wednesday on a Cairo apartment killed nine members of Morsi's outlawed Moslem Brüderbund, which responded by calling for a "rebellion." Air raids at dawn Thursday killed 23 Lions of Islam just south of Rafah, a key Sinai border town near the Gazoo Strip, Sinai security officials said. They added that the army was searching for murderous Moslems in the town of Sheikh Zuweid, where a string of army checkpoints were attacked a day earlier. Soldiers were demining roads in and around the area that had been booby trapped with mines and improvised bombs, the officials said, speaking on condition of anonymity ... for fear of being murdered... because they were not authorized to talk to the media. The army also raided a house in Rafah, killing six armed IS murderous Moslems wearing military uniforms, the officials said, adding that it had cleared the area around the Sheikh Zuweid cop shoppe of mines and IEDs. |
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