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| Islamist militant killed in shootout with Egyptian police: Ministry |
| 2015-11-10 |
| [AlAhram] Suspect was member of IS-affiliated Ansar Beit Al-Maqdis Lion of Islam group and was criminal mastermind and perpetrator of several high-profile terrorist attacks in Egypt, according to interior ministry A senior operative in an Egyptian Lion of Islam group was killed in a shootout with coppers who were attempting to carry out an arrest warrant against him in El-Marg district in northeastern Cairo, the interior minister said in a statement on Monday. The ministry said that the suspect, Ashraf Al-Gharabli, was a member of the Ansar Beit Al-Maqdis Lion of Islam group, who proclaimed allegience 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.... terrorist group late 2014, and was the criminal mastermind and perpetrator of several high-profile terrorist attacks in the country. Al-Gharabli was implicated in a series attacks including a failed liquidation attempt on a former interior minister late in 2013, a July boom-mobileing at the Italian consulate in central Cairo, a suicide kaboom at a tourist site in Luxor as well as several Lion of Islam attacks on security checkpoints, the statement added. He was also implicated in the murder of a Croatian and an American national in Egypt. Al-Gharabli was convicted and sentenced to death in absentia in May over an attack on soldiers in the Arab Sharkas village, north of Cairo, in which two army officers were killed. Six members of Ansar Beit Al-Maqdis were executed in May over the same case. |
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